[The number of Jews in
Germany: Officially 499,682 - plus 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 Jews
- are 760,000]
The total number of Jews in Germany in 1933 was officially
listed as 499,682. However, this included only people who
had declared themselves as Jews by religion. Additional
tens of thousands of people were Jewish by Nazi
definition.
There were 50,000 individuals who were sons and daughters
of Jewish parents but did not belong to the Jewish
community living in Germany at that time, an estimated
35,000 of whom were partners in mixed marriages.
So-called
three-quarter
Jews (that is, people who had only one non-Jewish
grandparent but did not belong to the Jewish community)
numbered about 2,000.
Half Jews (that
is, people who had two non-Jewish grandparents) were
estimated at 210,000 people,
and
quarter Jews
were estimated at 80,000 individuals.
This meant that what the Nazis considered to be the
non-Aryan population of Germany - that is, Jews,
three-quarter Jews, and half Jews - numbered together
about 760,000 people. (p.114)
(End note 18: Lutz Eugen Reutter: Die Hilfstätigkeit
katholischer Organisationen und kirchlicher Stellen für
die im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland Verfolgten, 2d
Edition Hamburg 1970, p.9)
