Statistical Report on the "Final Solution," known as the Korherr Report (March 23, 1943)

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III. WEAKNESS OF THE JEWISH VOLK

The balance sheet for the Jews in Germany shows an extraordinary excess of deaths. This results not only from the very high mortality rate of the Jews, but even more so from the marked scarcity of births. Thus, the natural population trend in the Altreich, including the Sudetenland, developed as follows (according to estimates and documentation from the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany, since the tallying of religious Jews is much more complicated and less reliable):

Births and deaths of Jews in the Altreich
(calculated and estimated until 1939)

Year	Births	Deaths	Excess deaths (-)
1933	3,425	8,925	- 5,500
1934	2,300	8,200	- 5,900
1935	2,500	8,100	- 5,600
1936	2,300	8,000	- 5,700
1937	2,100	8,000	- 5,900
1938	1,000	7,448	- 6,448
1939	610	8,136	- 7,526
1940	396	6,199	- 5,803
1941	351	6,249	- 5,898
1942	239	7,657	- 7,418
1933-1942	15,221	76,914	- 61,693

From the day of the seizure of power (January 30, 1933) until January 1, 1943, the excess of Jewish deaths in the Altreich, with the Sudetenland, totals 61,693; it represents the result of 14,921 births [sic: actually 15,221] and 76,114 deaths [sic: 76,914]. Although, on the one hand, migration, and, on the other hand, the absence of recording by the Reich Association of the Jews in the initial years, and the insufficiency of recording since then, particularly with respect to concentration camp deaths, leave much room for error, even this rough overview reveals that the level of deaths remained relatively constant despite the decline in the number of Jews. Jewish mortality would thus amount to 80-85 (as compared to 10 to 15 on average in Europe) per 1,000 (in the calendar year 1942).

Additionally striking is the decline in births, which is far ahead of the decline in the number of Jews. Accordingly, the birth rate for the Jews in the Altreich in 1942 would be only about 2.5 per 1,000. Similarly, in the Ostmark from March 1, 1938, to January 1, 1943, there were only 679 Jewish births to 15,188 Jewish deaths. In the Altreich, finally, only 14 Jewish children were born in December 1942, and only 7 and 8 in January and February 1943, respectively. Here, it must be remembered that, for decades, Jewry in the civilized western states has been at the forefront of declining birth rates, as was evident from the confessional birth statistics. As early as 1911, the Jew Felix Theilhaber pointed to the resulting "decline of the German Jews," which was covered up only by the continuous influx of east-Jewish blood. This was only partly related to the aging of the European Jewry in large cities: the main issue is a matter of genuine weakness of life.

Looking at the extraordinary mortality of the Jews today and their low birth rate, however, one must take into account the extremely unfavorable age structure of the Jews. After the emigration of their best generations, the Jews in Germany are largely comprised of old people, as a result of which their age structure resembles – in a visual depiction in the form of the age pyramid and in the words of the Reich Association of the Jews – the shape of a "club," which is objectively true. There is a lack of children and those of a similar age capable of reproducing, while the generation of old people is not only too strong comparatively, but is also much stronger than the younger generation in purely numerical terms. This also accounts in part for the highly elevated suicide rate of the Jews, since suicide is predominantly a method of death among old people.