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German sources for (estimated population of) 17 Million Jews before the Holocaust, before the 1944 (Hitler's) Mufti inciting Arabs against the remaining 11 Million.German source in 1924: Wirth, Albrecht. Weltgeschichte der Gegenwart (1879-1924). Germany: G. Westermann, 1924. p. 425. [Dem stelle man die Semiten mit schätzungsweise 45 Millionen , wovon 17 Millionen Juden.] Put the Semites with an estimated 45 million, of which 17 million Jews...Nazi German book in 1938: "Forschungen zur Judenfrage," Vol. 3, 1938, p. 156:: [Um das Jahr 1937 lebten auf der Erde insgesamt rund 17 Millionen Juden. Davon entfallen über 10 Millionen oder rund drei Fünftel...

The Biden administration has sold nearly 6 million barrels of oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to an entity tied to the Chinese Communist Party, records show. From September 2021 to July, the Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded three crude oil contracts with a combined value of roughly $464 million to Unipec America, the U.S. trading arm of Chinese state-owned oil company Sinopec, according to a review by The Epoch Times of the DOE documents. A Chinese firm with ties to Hunter Biden had invested in the national oil giant. The sale would tap 5.9 million barrels in...

During an interview on Fox News, Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., said that if the Mueller team is "looking at 17 different things, well, the perception [is] they are looking at 6 million different things. And they created those clouds." Zeldin said the scope of the Mueller probe, initially created to examine Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between Trump campaign officials and the Kremlin, has "gone so far beyond" what it was created to examine. The Mueller inquiry has expanded to also examine whether Trump attempted to obstruct justice, and other matters, including financial crimes by former...

TEHRAN, Iran - Drug smugglers have demanded $6 million in ransom for three tourists they kidnapped in southeastern Iran, officials said Tuesday. The tourists — two Germans and one Irish — were abducted a day earlier while cycling from the historical city of Bam to Zahedan, the provincial capital, in a region known as a major drug-smuggling route. The kidnappers were drug smugglers whose rackets had been hit hard by the security forces during the past year, the director general for security affairs in Sistan-Baluchistan province, Gholam Reza Javdan, told The Associated Press. He said an anonymous caller claimed responsibility...