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From: adam@npois.UUCP (Adam V. Reed)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Statistics are like a bikini...
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 15:30:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 15:30:37 1985
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>Don Black writes:
>     In the 1938 edition of the "World Almanac" of the American Jewish 
>Committee, the world population of Jews was 15,688,259.  
>     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!

Newspapers are published under tight deadlines, so the NYT printing
an "8" instead of a "0" in 10,700,000 is understandable. Not much to
build a conspiracy on... Other inaccuracies: The "World Almanac" is not
an organ of the American Jewish Committee. The "World Almanac" of 1938
cited a 1930 survey conducted by the staff of the "American Jewish
Yearbook" as its source. The AJY conducts such a survey every 10 years,
although the 1940 survey contains a lot of guesswork due to wartime
diffculties. If the AJY figures are plotted over the years, the
resulting curve does show a loss of about 5 million in the interval
between the 1930 and 1950 surveys (the figure of 6 million includes all
victims murdered because of Jewish ancestry, including many who did not
identify themselves as Jewish before the Holocaust).

					Adam Reed
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