HITLER was entirely successful in his plans for enlarging the German population, liquidating the European Jewry and reducing the birth rate in non-German countries, but the Allied victory defeated his intention to establish surplus Germans in occupied countries, states a report published on Saturday [April 13] by the International Committee for the Study of European Questions, says Reuter from London.

…On the German campaign for higher birth rate with the slogan “breed for the fatherland”, the report states that the response was an increase of 800,000 marriages and 1,566,000 births in seven years before the war. Everything possible was later done to prevent the normal decline in wartime of the birth rate. As a result Germany’s birth rate declined by only 761,000 in the first four years of the war compared with a decrease of over 3,000,000 in the 1914-18 war. German losses in population caused by bombing were considerably less than even the most sober estimate had given….

The Committee agrees with the statement by the British Prime Minister Mr. Clement Attlee to the House of Commons last October that 350,000 German civilians were killed in air raids in five and a half years of war….

Published in Dawn, April 15th, 2021