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Letter to a Holocaust Denier

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Letter to a Holocaust Denier Margaret Anna Alice “‘Oh, things seeped through somehow, always quietly, always indirectly. So people heard rumors, and the rest they could guess. Of course, most people did not believe the stories of Jews or other opponents of the regime. It was naturally thought that such persons would all exaggerate.’ “Rumors, guesses enough to make a man know if he wanted badly to know, or at least to believe, and always involving persons who would be suspected, ‘naturally,’ of exaggerating. Goebbels’ immediate subordinate in charge of radio in the Propaganda Ministry testified at Nuremberg that he had heard of the gassing of Jews, and went to Goebbels with the report. Goebbels said it was false, ‘enemy propaganda,’ and that was the end of it.” —Milton Mayer,  They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45  ( paperback ,  Kindle ,  audiobook ) You ignore eyewitness testimonies from victims and perpetrators alike. You dismiss the deaths of countless...