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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Painting by Eugene Burnand 



THE JEWISH TYPE 



The Jewish Year Book reckons the number of Jews in Europe today as 10,000,000; in 

 the United States 3,000,000, and another 1,000,000 scattered throughout the rest of the world. 

 In the famous painting here reproduced the Swiss artist, Burnand, depicts two of the Disci- 

 ples, Peter and John, hurrying to the Sepulchre. The canvas hangs in the Museum of the 

 Luxembourg, Paris. 



foreign residents, was 64,926,000. Subtracting 

 the foreigners, the people of Alsace-Lorraine, 

 and 3,500,000 Slavs, mostly Poles, there remain 

 about 58,000,000 Germans. Adjacent, strongly 

 attached to them, are the 10,000,000 Austrian 

 Germans and the nearly 300,000 in Luxemburg 

 and Liechtenstein, making a total German 

 population in Central Europe of approximately 

 70,000,000. 



The distinction of Low Germans, dwellers in 

 the Lowlands, and High Germans, dwellers 

 further south, on higher ground, early indicated 

 forms of the language and literary expression. 



More than any other race in Europe, the 

 Germans in Germany have inter-bred among 

 themselves. In consequence, they have devel- 

 oped traits which in a smaller people would be 

 termed provincial — inordinate self-satisfaction, 

 sense of superiority to other nations, and 

 marked incapacity as colonizers. While mak- 

 ing good colonists under other flags than their 

 own, as colonizers under their own flag they 

 have failed utterly. 



Despite all inducements offered by their gov- 

 ernment, they were themselves reluctant to emi- 

 grate to German colonies except as State func- 

 tionaries or soldiers. In 1914, in the more than 

 1,000,000 square miles of German colonial pos- 

 sessions, there were less than 25,000 white resi- 

 dents, inclusive of foreigners. Moreover, Ger- 

 man treatment of the natives is seldom kindly, 

 but in general brutal and inhuman. 



Yet German enterprise and discontent with 

 former conditions in the fatherland carried 

 them by hundreds of thousands all over the 

 globe. In the United States there are over 

 2,500,000 persons who were born in Germany, 

 most of them loyal and efficient American citi- 

 zens.* There are over 2,000,000 in Hungary 

 and 1,500,000 in Russia, long resident in those 

 countries. In South America there are more 

 than 500,000. 



In 1914 German or of German origin were 



* See in National Geographic Magazine, 

 "Our Foreign-born Citizens" (February, 1917). 



