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They wagged their heads in sympathy and then proceeded to speak in the barren legalism of constricted hearts of their inability to intervene in the domestic affairs of other nations and of their own inviolate immigration laws."
(Leff, 2005, p. 218)
The Psychology of the Denial of Historical Fact
Numerous examples exist of the extent to which even individuals without anti-Semitic animus ignored what, in retrospect, might be considered painfully obvious. In fact, the ultimate fate of European Jews under Nazi occupation was so outrageous that even many Jews caught within the Nazi snare either could not or would not recognize the reality and magnitude of what was in store for them. Many German Jews, in particular, could have taken the opportunity to leave the country before that option was cut off by German authorities. If the victims of horrific persecution cannot easily accept the evidence in front of them, it is only that much harder for those far-removed, both geographically and in spirit.
The passage of time is another significant barrier to the accurate interpretation and analyses of historical records. The study of human history necessarily involves a complex interrelationship of historical objectivity, historical relativism, and historical science (Shermer &...
21-31). Even without contemporary influence from those with anti-Semitic biases and intentions, the "relativistic" academic approach to studying historical records is often very detrimental to the most accurate retrospective analysis of available information (Shermer & Grobman, 2002, pp. 28-29). Finally, there is, in this case in particular, also the sad irony that the sheer magnitude, horror, and moral turpitude of the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis against the Jewish people are so great that they are easily susceptible to assumptions of exaggeration by subsequent generations without first-hand access to the events or any of its surviving perpetrators, victims, or witnesses.
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