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Chapter VI: National-Socialist Policy of Jewish Emigration 193
the emigration overseas was no longer possible, he initiated the gradual
clearing of the Reich territory of Jews by their deportation to the east.
Moreover, in more recent times old peoples’ homes (old peoples’ ghettos)
have been established within Reich territory for the admission of Jews, e.g.
in Theresienstadt. Indications as to the particulars are found in the note of
August 21, 1942. The establishment of additional old peoples’ homes in the
eastern territories is imminent.”
4. Results of the NS Policy of Promoting Jewish
Emigration
The National Socialist policy for the promotion of Jewish emigration conformed
to a concrete goal of the Reich leadership and was accordingly carried
out earnestly and successfully. In April of 1943, Richard Korherr, Inspector
for Statistics at the office of the Reichsführer SS, wrote a report entitled “The
Final Solution to the European Jewish Question,” 549 in which the following
figures are given:
Start of Period
Mortality
Region
ending Dec. 31, 1942 Emigration Surplus
Altreich (Germany proper,
with Sudetenland)
January 31, 1933
(Sept. 29, 1938)
–382,534 –61,193
Ostmark (Austria) March 13, 1938 –149,124 –14,509
Bohemia and Moravia March 16, 1939 –25,699 –7,074
Eastern Territories
(with Bia�ystok)
September 1939
(June 1940)
–334,673
General Gouvernement (Poland,
with Lemberg)
September 1939
(June 1940)
–427,920
Combined Total –1,402,726
Thus, 557,357 Jews emigrated from the Altreich (Germany proper), Austria,
and Bohemia and Moravia, to which more than half of the 762,593 Jews
from the General Gouvernement and the eastern territories can be added, 550 a
figure from the categories “Emigration” and “Mortality Surplus” combined by
Korherr for those two areas. Consequently, the NS government stimulated the
emigration of approximately one million Jews out of the territories controlled
by it from 1933 to 1942.
549
NO-5193.
550
Approximately 300,000 Jews emigrated from Poland alone in 1939-1941. G. Reitlinger, op.
cit. (note 181), p. 542.