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From: black@pundit.DEC (DON BLACK DTN 261-2739 MS: NIO/N13 LOC: POLE C6)
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Subject: Statistics are like a bikini...
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 12:08:55 EDT
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     I ran into so interesting statistics the other day, and seeing as 
Oded Feingold had made this comment about my previous submission, I 
thought maybe I'd hit the subject again:

>[Black]>  After all, there are  approximately 40 million Jews worldwide.
>[OAF]		A standard claim of those who assert the holocaust never
>		existed.  Nobody has ever been able to find 26.5 million 
>		of those Jews.

     Using Oded's figures, which I assume are reasonably correct, this 
comes to approximately 13.5 million Jews in the world today.

     Since the Jewish population tends to shift from country to country
over the past few decades, only the world total figures are meaningful.

     In the 1938 edition of the "World Almanac" of the American Jewish 
Committee, the world population of Jews was 15,688,259.  

     Assuming that 6 million Jews died in the European Holocaust, that should
leave about 9,688,000, right?  Allegedly, the worst period of the genocide
occurred between 1941 and 1945.  Jean-Paul Satre, in his review "Les Temps
Modernes," places the death rate at 25,000 per day for 4 1/2 years.
(Let's see...that's 4.5 years times 365 days times 25,000....)

     But we find according to an article by Hanson W. Baldwin, published in
the New York Times of 22 February 1948, less than three years from the end
of the alleged Holocaust, the world Jewish population was 18,700,000---
a net GAIN of 3 million from the population of 1938!  If in fact the population
was only 9.69 million at the end of 1945, this indicates that the Jewish
population would have to double itself in less than three years.  I don't
think even the Chinese have that high a birth rate (my apologies to our
Chinese neighbors).  Talk about a post-war baby boom!

     Correct me if I'm wrong, but if the population today is 13.5 million, 
and the population of 1948 was 18.7 million, that figures to a net loss
of 5.2 million in 37 years.  Quite a difference from the mega-fecundity of
1945-1948.  

     I don't quite understand....

     I'm using figures from three Jewish sources, so I can logically assume
thet the information is right.  There is a claim of a loss of about 42% of
the population in a seven year time, followed by an approximate 92% increase
over a three-year time.  These sources indicate a net population gain of 
about 20% over ten years, which sounds more like a normal, healthy birth-
rate.  

     Maybe I DO understand, and therein lies the problem.

     --Don Black