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Statistics on Hamburg’s Jewish Population, compiled for the Gestapo by the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany [Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland] Liaison Officer on April 30, 1945
https://dx.doi.org/10.23691/jgo:source-5.en.v1
LE
Institute for the History of the German Jews
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The document presented here contains a statistical table listing the
number of Jews remaining in Hamburg in the final days of the National
Socialist regime. Statistics like this one were compiled about every
other week for the Gestapo in Hamburg and were forwarded to the Berlin
headquarters of the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany
Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland, or RVJD, which were
overseen by the Reich Main Security Office
Reichssicherheitshauptamt, or RSHA. The recipient listed at the top
of the page is the “Secret State Police,” Geheime Staatspolizei
specifically section IV 4b. This corresponds to the Reich Main
Security Office's Reichssicherheitshauptamt departmental designation
– Jewish questions and evacuations, headed by SS-Sturmbannführer
Adolf Eichmann. The document does not reveal who compiled this
statistic in Hamburg. The reference initials “LE” cannot be
identified. It is quite possible, however, that the ”liaison
officer” of Hamburg's remaining Jewish community, physician Dr.
Martin Heinrich Corten, wrote this document for Hamburg's Gestapo
branch. It is interesting that the statistic's author himself intended
a copy of it to be forwarded to the headquarters of the Reich
Association of the Jews in Germany Reichsvereinigung der Juden in
Deutschland located in Berlin. The address listed is Berlin N 65,
which was the district of Wedding. It was the address of the Jewish
hospital on Iranische Straße. Since the post office in charge of this
district was located at Schulstraße 7, a street which on April 22
became the main frontline between German and Russian troops for three
days, it is safe to assume that the copy never reached its recipient
if it was ever mailed at all.
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