Jews, German population

From 1942 onwards, the mass deportation of Jews to concentration camps occurred from all German-occupied territories. The percentage of deported Jews varied greatly from country to country thus, 75,721 Jews, a quarter of the total Jewish population of that country were deported from France, predominantly those with foreign passports.42 The country with the highest percentage of deportees (over three quarters of all Jewish residents) was Holland. 

According to this report, two million Jews had already been murdered in Treblinka by this method (thus, about 17,000 per day ) it said that after the Germans had begun to also kill non-Jewish Poles with steam, the entire population of Poland had the spectre of death in the steam chambers before its mind s eye. 

Not a single Jew is left in Kyiv because Germans have thrown the entire Jewish population in Kyiv into the river Dnjepr. ... 

Thus the non-Jewish population of Kyiv which Event Report 106 mentions and which expected the German authorities to take retaliatory measures due to the arson perpetrated by the Jews, would have consisted almost entirely of ghosts. And the Encyclopedia of the Elolocaust,5 too, would have been conjuring up ghosts in speaking of non-Jewish sectors of the Kyiv population that helped the Jews to hide, or that wrote denunciatory letters by the laundry-basketfull. 

The Jews expelled from Western Europe fled to Poland, a large and thinly populated kingdom where elected monarchs welcomed them with generous charters. The medieval German of these emigrant Ashkenazim evolved to Yiddish they founded villages and towns they dispersed up and down the long eastern Polish frontier and lived in relative peace for two hundred years. 

No reviewer, however, was uniformly enthusiastic. Some took issue with what they saw as Willstatter s collective condemnation of an entire population. Stadlinger, while extremely positive, questioned Willstatter s generalizations about German and Christian behavior during the Third Reich. He reminded his readers that, notwithstanding Willstatter s harsh treatment as a Jew. ... 

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