Western Civilization II / Unit 17 WC2 1627 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Nuremberg, Hilberg, Eichmann, Denial, Memory
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The idea
Eisenhower ordered the camps documented. Nuremberg tried twenty-two men for crimes against humanity. Then decades of silence, until Hilberg's study of nineteen sixty-one and Eichmann's capture and trial in Jerusalem made the Holocaust world-known. Denial from the seventies is false; museums and curricula answered it.
In practice
The desktop murderer, Eichmann and the trains.
Where people slip
Denial is described as the anchor describes it: false.
Your place on the trail
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