lets pretend Hitler died as a baby, and after World War One, Germany remained a Democracy and there was no second world war...how many Jews would there be now, does anyone know of any stats out there with estimates?
2006-08-05 18:23:50 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I saw a documentry once that put it at 48 million by the year 2000
2006-08-05 18:32:52 · answer #1 · answered by outremer7 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which genocide? The one you mention, the Holocaust, is not the only one. Spain, after it went back to being Christian, forced thousdands of Jews to convert, then there was the Inquisition, there were the pogroms or eastern Europe, before all this were the Crusades which wiped out whole Jewish villages, and on and on.
Estimates are that if ALL of these had never happened to the Jews over the last 1000+ years, then there would be as many as 500 million Jews in the world instead of the roughly 15 million.
2006-08-05 19:09:37 · answer #2 · answered by sfederow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the estimate is 6,000,000 Jews killed in the holocaust, and assuming many of these Jews were Orthodox and have larger than average families, and that the generational length is approximately 20 years.... Then there have been 3 generations since the Holocaust, lets say each generation produces 5 offspring that reach adulthood...
Holocaust Generation: 6,000,000
Generation 1: 30,000,000
Generation 2: 150,000,000
Generation 3: 750,000,000
But hey, I am no mathematician. I am just pulling numbers out of the air. Does the exact number really matter though? It would be a whole heck of a lot more than there are now -- that is certain.
2006-08-05 18:37:23 · answer #3 · answered by Heather L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. Good question. But I think we could assume there would at least be 6 million more today than there are, since that is how many were killed, assuming that the people had a steady rate of growth. I guess you would have to determine what the Jewish birth rate is for European Jews or something like that.
2006-08-05 18:32:23 · answer #4 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No clue - but there wouldn't be a Jewish state as there is now.
The Jewish population would be spread out all over Europe and
the slavic countries.
2006-08-05 18:31:05 · answer #5 · answered by Elana 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not say TRIPLE the number that are alive today.
With their BRAIN POWER they could have;
Cured Aids,
Cured Cancer,
Invented practical space travel,
invented a Carbourator that gets 300 miles per gallon,
Possibilities are endless.............
2006-08-05 18:32:41 · answer #6 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old story, closed book. This statistics would not be beneficial to anyone.
2006-08-05 18:33:02 · answer #7 · answered by Muslim 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋