After the Reformation divided Germans between Roman Catholics and Protestants in 1517, the Peace of Augsburg in 1555 decided that the ruler would determine regional religious affiliation, resulting in a mostly Roman Catholic South and a Protestant South and East. After WWII, however, population redistributions lessened this distinction. While citizens in the former West Germany paid an obligatory church tax levied with their income tax, church membership in the GDR was actually a barrier to career advancement. Today, there are approximately equal numbers of Lutherans and Roman Catholics in Germany. Five percent of the population is Muslim, mainly due to Turkish immigration, and though only a few thousand German Jews survived the Holocaust, about 100,000 Jews now reside in Germany.
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