The Jews may be glad that it is not of the French or Russian pattern."[2] Saying Vienna was "overfilled with Jews", he stated his aim to leave them with no more than five percent of their property.[3] On 20 August 1938, he established the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna, at first responsible for the forced emigration of Jews, and later for the subsequent deportation and murder of at least 48,767 Austrian Jews out of Vienna.