More juggling of Holocaust numbers

[zgrams at zgrams.zundelsite.org]

BERLIN, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Germany on Monday published a new list of 
names of all the known German Jews murdered in the Holocaust in the 
Second World War as an update to a list with only victims from former 
West Germany published 20 years ago.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/08/content_4523670.htm



     The four-volume book, containing 150,000 names in alphabetical 
order along with vital data and dates of detention, now includes the 
names of Jews who had lived in eastern Germany and parts of 
modern-day Poland which were controlled by Germany before the Second 
World War.

     According to historians, up to 600,000 Jews lived in Germany 
before the rise of the Nazis, the German news agency DPA reported.

     The Nazis invaded much of Europe and killed an estimated six 
million European Jews.

     The new memorial register was compiled by Germany's Federal 
Archives and corrects the inevitable errors in the first edition 
compiled in 1986.

     The new list contains a complete list of the mass "deportations" 
from pre-war Germany, Austria and three parts of the modern Czech 
Republic -- the Sudetenland, Bohemia and Moravia.

     Bernd Neumann, Berlin's state minister for the arts, said at a 
launching ceremony in Berlin's New Synagogue that it was important to 
complete the book because the time was approaching when there would 
be no living memory of the persecution.

     "We have a moral duty to keep alive the memory of all the Jewish 
victims of the Nazi dictatorship and pass it to future generations," 
he said.

     The updating work was done after finding new documents following 
the German reunification in 1990, with the help of survivors and 
relatives of the holocaust victims and private historians, the 
Federal Archives said. Enditem
	Editor: Luan Shanglin
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