Also, check out my email debate with writer and Holocaust-denier, Thomas Dalton. Start from the bottom and go up.
-Here is an interesting website that directly deals with the issue of the almost zero growth rate of the world's Jewish population since WW2.
Massive urbanization, inter-marriage, the loss of the European home base, much smaller Jewish families, and long term shock from the Holocaust, seem to all be contributing factors.
The world's Jewish population has actually decreased over the years, and appears to be headed further in that direction.
But keep in mind, a yearly growth rate of 3% was very common back then, as it was and continues to the yearly growth rate of Palestinians, even in Israel. Its been 3% a year since 1922.
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"Great men are like meteors...giving light to the world as they are consumed"
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
From: Thomas Dalton <thomasdaltonphd@yahoo.com>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 8:49:42 PM
Subject: Re: The Holocaust Denial Debate
Fine -- so stick with the Jewish Virtual Library as the 'single' source, which takes data from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics. Is there a comprehensible explanation for a very large, 1.4% annual growth rate for the 40 years before the war, but then a 0.3% annual rate for the 50 years after the war? That's a factor of (almost) 5 difference. Unlikely, I would say.
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To: Thomas Dalton <thomasdaltonphd@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 3:06:37 PM
Subject: Re: The Holocaust Denial Debate
http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_408.html
at the bottom of this web page, are whole host of many census #s for the World Jewish population from 1900 to today. They vary greatly. Some say there are 18 million Jews in the world today, some say 12 million.
Clearly, figuring out the number of Jews in the world is a difficult endeavor, and it is only academically sound to compare data from different time periods, from the SAME source, in order to get an accurate reading of possible fraud or deceit when it comes to pre-WW2 and post- WW2 Jewish population data.
Comparing possibly OVER-estimated pre-WW2 stats., with possibly UNDER-estimated post- WW2 stats.,(all from different sources) in order to suggest that there were very few Jewish Holocaust deaths...is absolutely ridiculous.
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"Great men are like meteors...giving light to the world as they are consumed"
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
From: Thomas Dalton <thomasdaltonphd@yahoo.com>
To:
Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 7:50:10 AM
Subject: Re: The Holocaust Denial Debate
jewishvirtuallibrary.org suggests about 15M in 1929, and 16.7M just before the war. But their statistics for 1900-1940 cannot be right, since they require a very high growth rate -- about 3x the rate after the war, which makes no sense. Pre-war numbers were likely inflated by 30-40%. Also the NYT reports on a global total of just 6M in 1889, and there is no way the pop could have tripled in 40 years. See Chap 3.
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To: Thomas Dalton <thomasdaltonphd@yahoo.com>
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:23:10 PM
Subject: Re: The Holocaust Denial Debate
Under 1 million? that just can't be. There were 18 million Jews in the world in 1929..and maybe 13 million after WW2. Today there aren't even 14 million Jews. Clearly a good 4 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis. Not to mention the millions of Poles, Russians, and Germans murdered by the Nazis.
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"Great men are like meteors...giving light to the world as they are consumed"
~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
From: Thomas Dalton <thomasdaltonphd@yahoo.com>
To:
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:19:04 PM
Subject: Re: The Holocaust Denial Debate
I suspect the death total is under 1 million. There are problems with national censuses, and of course 1929 was well before the war - lots of emigration occurred in the following 10 years. I suggest you read Chap 3 of the book, which shows the revisionist case pretty clearly, based on global (not national) figures.
TD.
From:
To: thomasdaltonphd@yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 7:59:26 PM
Subject: The Holocaust Denial Debate
Good afternoon. What are the conclusions of your book? I have done my own research and I believe that number of Jewish Holocaust victims is closer to 4.5 million, not 6 million. This was done by comparing the number of Jews listened in European countries, from a 1929 census of Jews in the World. I compared this to the number of Jews considered killed in each country under Nazi occupation. For example, it is believed that there were 3.3 million Jews in Poland, while in the 1929 census there were 2.8. That's a difference of 500,000. That's no chump change.
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