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It is difficult indeed to ascertain the real extent of the German Jewish share in crime throughout the Reich for the following reasons: The criminal records kept in Germany since 1882 recognized only orthodox Jews. Those innumerable Jews who had accepted a Christian faith or who were not associated with any established religion, were never embraced in these records. Therefore a great number of criminals, Jewish by race, has been absorbed in other statistical categories. To this must be added the fact that commencing with the year 1918, criminal records ceased to show, any subdivision into confessions. This step was in all probability the result of Jewish intervention. The following statistics therefore cannot in any way be regarded as complete. Nevertheless they are food for thought in throwing light on Jewish characteristics.
When taking all this into account, the official "Statistics of the German Reich" (New Edition, Vol. 146) reveal the fact that a number of certain crimes were committed more frequently by Jews than by Christians. Taking an average valuation for the period 1892 to 1901, we obtain the following table:
Crime.
Jewish percentage compared with Christian criminals.
Fraud & Trickery . . . . . . . .
Usury . .. . . . . . . . . . . .
Copyright infringement . . . . .
Fraudulent bankruptcy . . . . .
Fraudulent insolvency . . . . .
Receiving stolen property . . .
14 times greater.
13 “ “
11 “ “
9 “ “
6 “ “
5 “ “
It will be seen from this that Jews-have a strong liking for commercial crime. That this fact has in no way been sufficiently explained by the large percentage of Jews in business is revealed by the investigations conducted by the Jew Ruppin. In his book, Die Juden der Gegenwart -- Contemporary Jews -- (Berlin 1904), with the aid of comparative statistics Ruppin arrives at considerably greater figures for commercial crime than Jewish participation in commerce would seem to indicate. The Jew Wassermann arrives at the same conclusion in his book Beruf, Konfession und Verbrechen, -- Profession, Confession and Crime --, (Munich 1907). He proves that Jewish criminality in bankruptcy in 1900 was seven times greater than among non-Jewish criminals and six times greater in cases of fraudulent insolvency. Wassermann obtained these statistics by being guided expressly by the percentage participation in commercial professions.
The official "Statistics of the German Reich" for the period 1910 to 1914 furthermore prove that at a later stage very little alteration had taken place. The following table exemplifies this:
Crime.
Jewish percentage compared with Christian criminals.
Professional receivers
of stolen property . . . . . . . .
Commercial fraud . . . . . . .
Fraud . . . . . . . .. . . . . .
Copyright infringement. . . . . .
Usury . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Fraudulent bankruptcy . . . . .
5 times greater.
3 “ “
2 “ “
8 “ “
12 “ “
13 “ “
Quite apart from these commercial crimes Jews have taken a still greater share in other branches of crime far more reprehensible. We refer to the drug traffic and prostitution, illicit gambling and pickpocketting.