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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...

This isn’t really new, but some of the most interesting material comes from Rafael Medoff’s demonstration of how the material was buried and misreported by historians sympathetic to liberal presidents. When FDR endorsed quotas for Jews in the US and even North Africa, liberal historians claimed that he was being “practical” or actually trying to help Jews. And then there’s the story of the efforts to bury and lie about FDR’s exchange with Stalin about the Jews.