Eighty percent of the Jews in Germany
(about 400,000 people) held German citizenship. The remainder were mostly
Jews of Polish citizenship, many of whom were born in Germany and who
had permanent resident status in Germany. In all, about 70 percent of
the Jews in Germany lived in urban areas. Fifty percent of all Jews
in Germany lived in the 10 largest German cities. The largest Jewish
population centers were in Berlin
(about 160,000), Frankfurt am Main (about 26,000), Breslau (about 20,000),
Hamburg (about 17,000), Cologne (about 15,000), Hannover (about 13,000),
and Leipzig (about 12,000). Slightly more than 10,000 Jews lived in
the Free City of Danzig. The
overwhelming majority of Jews in Austria, some 178,000, lived in the
capital city, Vienna. The largest
Jewish community in Czechoslovakia was in Prague,
the capital city, with 35,000 people.
