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In that circumstance it wouldn't even be a footnote; nobody would even hear of it, except perhaps as a "conspiracy theory".

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Eh, probably more like how the Holodomor is treated in Russia or Nanking massacre in Japan and the west for that matter: disputed by apologists in public, lauded by nationalists in private, denied by the people in power and mostly forgotten by the rest.

United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan and most it's citizens don't/didn't feel bad about it. Why do you think a victorious German society would've cared that deeply about Jews who have been historically loathed?

It would've been publicized as a success, not something to hide away.

> United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan and most it's citizens don't/didn't feel bad about it.

The US didn't drop nuclear bombs on Japan just because the people there are Japanese.

> Why do you think a victorious German society would've cared that deeply about Jews who have been historically loathed?

Why do you think Germans would not care that their government exterminated six million Jews?

> It would've been publicized as a success, not something to hide away.

Then why did they take such great lengths to hide it away?

Exactly. People can't wrap their minds around the fact that their own country is constantly peddling propaganda. I noticed this after I started travelling around the world working in different countries. Every single country is constantly pushing its own propaganda and they all have some element of truth mixed together with lies. Conspiracy theory is how governments hides aspects of the truth that they don't like.

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