Korherr Report

The Korherr Report is a 16-page document on the progress of the Holocaust in German-controlled Europe. It was delivered to Heinrich Himmler on March 23, 1943, by the chief inspector of the statistical bureau of the SS and professional statistician Richard Korherr under the title Die Endlösung der Judenfrage, in English the Final Solution to the Jewish Question. Commissioned by Himmler, Korherr calculated that, from 1937 to December 1942, the number of Jews in Europe had fallen by 4 million. Between October 1939 and December 31, 1942 (see page 9 of the Report) 1,274,166 Jews had been "processed" at the camps of the General Government ("for the occupied former Polish territories") and 145,301 at the camps in the formally German-annexed Warthegau (the location of Kulmhof). The decrease of Soviet Russian Jews from the territories overrun in Operation Barbarossa was not included due to lack of statistical data. The summaries came from the RSHA office receiving all SS reports about the so-called "already evacuated" Jews. Euphemistic references to the sonderbehandlung of the Jews in the extermination camps were replaced by Korherr with the even more euphemistic Durchgeschleust ("processed") at the request of Himmler, who likely shared the report with Adolf Hitler.