--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> Yoshie 1uoted:
> > ***** 3. Q: How many Jews were murdered in each
> country, and what
> > percentages did they constitute of that country's
> pre-War Jewish
> > population?
> >
> > A:
> > Austria 40,000 20% Hungary 200,000 50%
> > Belgium 40,000 67% Italy 8,000 16%
> > Bulgaria --- --- Latvia 80,000 84%
> > Czechoslovakia 315,000 88% Lithuania 135,000 87%
> > Denmark 500 08% Luxembourg 700 23%
> > Estonia 1,500 33% Norway 760 42%
> > Finland 8 01% Poland 2,850,000 88%
> > France 90,000 30% Rumania 425,000 50%
> > Germany 170,000 32% USSR 1,252,000 44%
> > Greece 60,000 80% Yugoslavia 60,000 80%
> > Holland 105,000 75%
> >
> >
> <http://www.holocaustcenterbuff.com/questions.html>
> *****
> >
> > Do the above proportions correlate with the
> degrees of anti-Jewish
> > legislations, social practices, and cultural
> institutions of the
> > respective nations before WW2?
>
> WS: Seems like an already made conclusion, does not
> it?
>
> But I have another take on the same figures, which
> suggest a very
> different explanation. I rearranged these figures
> into two groups, A
> and B, and computed the average loss of the pre-war
> Jewish population
> for each group. The results are shown below:
>
> GROUP A
> Austria 20%
> Denmark 8%
> Finland 1%
> France 30%
> Germany 32%
> Holland 75%
> Hungary 50%
> Italy 16%
> Luxembourg 23%
> Norway 42%
> Rumania 50%
> Average 32%
>
> GROUP B
> Belgium 67%
> Czechoslovakia 88%
> Estonia 33%
> Greece 80%
> Latvia 84%
> Lithuania 87%
> Poland 88%
> Yugoslavia 80%
> Average 77%
> As you can see the countries in group B lost on
> average twice as much of
> it pre-war Jewish population as countries in group B
> (77% vs. 35%).
> What differentiates countries in group A from those
> in group B?
>
> The countries in group A had functioning local
> governments under the
> Nazi occupation, which cooperated (or was forced to
> do so, to be more
> exact) with the Nazis, but enjoyed some limited
> autonomy, which they
> often used to thwart the deportation of Jews to the
> death camps.
>
> The countries in group B, by contrast, lacked such
> government - they
> were either ruled directly by Nazi occupational
> authority (e.g. Poland),
> or the local Nazi-appointed authority could not
> function at all due to
> communist resistance (esp. Yugoslavia or the
> Baltics).
>
> The notable exceptions to that rule were the
> Netherlands which had a
> local functioning government with some autonomy
> during the Nazi
> occupation, yet lost 75% of its pre-war Jewish
> population (the same as
> the Group B average).
>
> This suggests that a functioning local government,
> even if it is a
> puppet government, was better for the local Jewish
> population under the
> Nazi occupation than the direct Nazi rule of the
> occupied territory.
> From the point of causal logic, it makes more sense
> to attribute causal
> relation to the condition existing during the
> holocaust than to the
> conditions distant in time and obliterated, to a
> large extent, by the
> Nazi invasion. But it would not tell the same
> politically correct
> story, would it?
>
> Wojtek
>
>
>
>
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