When did Jews fall under Nazi Germany’s control?
1933.
Germany: 525,000 237,000 by 1939, so better than half had emigrated.
1938.
Austria: 250,000
1939. The seizure of Czechoslovakia came as a surprise, but not the attack on Poland.
Czechoslovakia: 357,000 March.
Poland: 3,000,000 September. Roughly two-thirds; the others fell to the Soviets.
1940. All of these came as an astonishing surprise in a few months of war.
Denmark: 5,700 April. Most later escaped to Sweden.
Norway: 1,400 April. Most later escaped to Sweden.
France: 250,000 June in Occupied Zone; November 1942 in the rest of France.
Netherlands: 156,000 June.
Belgium: 60,000 June.
1941. All of these came as an astonishing surprise.
Greece: 73,000 April.
Yugoslavia: 68,000 April
Bulgaria: 48,500 Blocked the Germans from taking most Bulgarian Jews.
Albania: 200 April
European Russia: 2,525,000[1] June-December
Estonia: 4,560 June-December. Part of the Soviet Union from September 1939.
Latvia: 95,600 June-December. Part of the Soviet Union from September 1939.
Lithuania: 155,000 June-December. Part of the Soviet Union from September 1939.
Romania: 756,000 Murderously antisemitic in some places; not so much elsewhere.
1943.
Italy: 48,000 September.[2]
1944.
Hungary: 445,000
Never.
Spain: 4,000 Portugal: 1,200 Sweden: 6,700
Switzerland: 18,000 Britain and the Palestine Mandate: 475,000
[1] On the one hand, possibly 1 million Polish Jews were added to the Soviet population in Fall 1939. On the other hand, many Jews fled or were evacuated eastward when Germany attacked.
[2] Italy tried to jump ship on Germany; the Germans fell on the northern two-thirds of the country like an avalanche.
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