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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

there were a lot of debunked astrocity propaganda during WWI, this made a lot of people not believe the propaganda of WWII, which is why no one really accepted the holocaust as happening until the 70s when a lot of people that would have remembered WWI were dying off. Nowadays we have propaganda like saying russians had bounties on killing US troops in afghanistan which was made up.

[–]Shoah_Kahn 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

>until the 70s

A couple of things happened around that time, too:

1. Menachem Begin, the third prime minister of Israel, began doing the rounds, in order to placate the international ire fomented of the recent wars Israel had instigated (Six-Day etc.) -- one of the three Irgun terrorist founders of "Israel" (the others being Yitzhak Shamir and David Ben-Gurion). Among some of his tales was the claim that the Jew built Egypt.

2. The mini-series Holocaust (1978) was released in the U. S..

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, they had likely thought then was the time to go full propaganda for the resons you state, and knowing that older people that would call BS on it were dying.