Korherr Report

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Korherr Report
Korherr Report, signed January 1943, page 9.
4. Deported to the Russian east:
1,449,692 Jews
Processed at the camps of the General Government:
1,274,166 Jews
Processed in Warthegau:
145,301 Jews
Date(as of) December 31, 1942

The Korherr Report is a 16-page document on the progress of

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The decrease of Soviet Russian Jews from the territories overrun in

RSHA office receiving all SS reports about the so-called "already evacuated" Jews. Their "special treatment" was removed from the document on the request of Himmler who intended to share it with Hitler, and replaced by Korherr with "processed".[2]

Significance

The initial report, sixteen pages long, was submitted on March 23, 1943. On Himmler's request an abridged version, six-and-a-half pages long, was updated to March 31, 1943.

Himmler accepted the full report on a confidential basis, but for the abridged estimate, made Korherr change the word "Sonderbehandlung" or "special treatment," to the word "durchgeschleust" or "processed."[5] The report calculated that, from 1937 to December 1942, the number of Jews in Europe had fallen by 4 million.[1]

Korherr ascribed this fall to "emigration, partially due to the excess mortality of the Jews in Central and Western Europe, partially due to the evacuations especially in the more strongly populated Eastern Territories, which are here counted as ongoing."[1]

By way of explanation, Korherr added that

It must not be overlooked in this respect that of the deaths of Soviet Russian Jews in the occupied Eastern territories only a part was recorded, whereas deaths in the rest of European Russia and at the front are not included at all. In addition there are movements of Jews inside Russia to the Asian part which are unknown to us. The movement of Jews from the European countries outside the German influence is also of a largely unknown order of magnitude. On the whole European Jewry should since 1933, i.e. in the first decade of National Socialist German power, have lost almost half of its population.[1]

Post-war

After the war Korherr was initially held in Allied custody but was one of the first to be released.[6] He was then hired at the West Germany Ministry of Finance. However, he was dismissed in 1961 when Gerald Reitlinger’s book Die Endlösung [The Final Solution] was published and it revealed the importance of the Korherr Report in crafting the "final solution."[7]

The Korherr Report's full impact was revealed at Adolf Eichmann's trial when he testified that the report made his job "much easier."[7]

Korherr denied all knowledge of the Holocaust, saying that he had "only heard about exterminations after the collapse in 1945."[8]

In a letter he sent to the German magazine Der Spiegel in July 1977, Korherr said that he had not written the report on Himmler's order"[9] and that the

statement that I had mentioned that over a million Jews had died in the camps of the

Lublin district.[9]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Richard Korherr, DIE ENDLÖSUNG DER EUROPÄISCHEN JUDENFRAGE, Der Inspekteur für Statistik beim Reichsführer SS, Berlin, 1943. NS-Archiv.de in German.
  2. ^ Chris Webb (2009). "The Richard Korherr Report". Holocaust Research Project.org. Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  3. ^ Friedländer, Saul. "Chapter 7: March 1943 – October 1943". Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Extermination, 1939-1945. p. 9.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "The Korherr Report! www.HolocaustResearchProject.org". www.holocaustresearchproject.org. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  5. ^ Richard Korherr, Anweisung Himmler an Korherr, Der Reichsführer-SS, Feld-Kommandostelle 10.4.1943
  6. ^ "Korherr, Richard (1903-): statistical report on 'the final solution to the Jewish question' and other papers (microfilm) - Archives Hub". archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  7. ^ a b "GHDI - Document". ghdi.ghi-dc.org. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  8. ^ Ernst Klee, Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich,. Aktualisierte Ausgabe Frankfurt/M 2005, S. 331.
  9. ^ a b Der Spiegel, Der SPIEGEL, Nr. 31, 25. Juli 1977, S. 12. https://www.spiegel.de/politik/hitler-gegen-irving-a-04024ed2-0002-0001-0000-000040831720

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