Jews in Prewar Germany Analysis

Census of June 1933 - the Jewish population of Germany consisted of about 500,000 people. Jews represented less than one percent of the total German population of about 67 million people.

The Nazi racist criteria codified in the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 (identified Jews according to the religion practiced by an individual's grandparents). They classified as Jews thousands of people who had converted from Judaism to another religion, among them even Roman Catholic priests and nuns and Protestant ministers whose grandparents were Jewish. 

80% 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

70 % of the Jews in Germany lived in urban areas. Fifty percent of all Jews lived in the 10 largest German cities, including 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).