Official Statistics and the Holocaust: Friedrich Burgdörfer, the Reich Statistics Office, and the ‘Jewish Census’ of 1939
Journal of Contemporary History
Published online on May 26, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Contemporary History, Ahead of Print.
Censuses that question individual population groups on ethnic or religious characteristics often precede ethnic cleansing. Is the 1939 census in Germany an exception? The focus of this article is how Friedrich Burgdörfer, as demographer and head of the ...
Censuses that question individual population groups on ethnic or religious characteristics often precede ethnic cleansing. Is the 1939 census in Germany an exception? The focus of this article is how Friedrich Burgdörfer, as demographer and head of the ...