Just to add a little context, this old chestnut comes from the World Almanac. Whilst it is certainly true those numbers were printed, NatSocs often fail to mention that due to the war and bad record keeping, they made no new estimations of the Jewish population during that time. That's why the numbers are identical for a few years.
When we account for 1949 onward, however, those numbers drop substantially because of the war's end and proper access to records after the chaos of its immediate aftermath.
in 1948, according to the Almanac, there were some fifteen and a half million Jews worldwide.
In 1949, that number drops to around eleven million.
Ahhh, I was expecting something like that, but I'd not yet had time to drill down on it.
It's a little curious that when you search you can see organisations talking about the demographic change WWII inflicted upon the Jewish population particularly - and yet no reference in that specific - perhaps specifically chosen - set of figures.
Just to add a little context, this old chestnut comes from the World Almanac. Whilst it is certainly true those numbers were printed, NatSocs often fail to mention that due to the war and bad record keeping, they made no new estimations of the Jewish population during that time. That's why the numbers are identical for a few years.
When we account for 1949 onward, however, those numbers drop substantially because of the war's end and proper access to records after the chaos of its immediate aftermath.
in 1948, according to the Almanac, there were some fifteen and a half million Jews worldwide.
In 1949, that number drops to around eleven million.
Ahhh, I was expecting something like that, but I'd not yet had time to drill down on it.
It's a little curious that when you search you can see organisations talking about the demographic change WWII inflicted upon the Jewish population particularly - and yet no reference in that specific - perhaps specifically chosen - set of figures.