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The Holocaust was unbelievable. Despite accurate reports by eyewitnesses to all aspects of this genocide, those outside could not and would not grasp what they were being told. American and British leaders hearing Jan Karski describe the Warsaw ghetto or reading the report on Auschwitz made by two escapees, Western newspaper readers confronted with vivid stories, even Jews with relatives in Europe could not understand what they could not imagine.1
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Reprinted in Geoffrey H. Hartman (ed.), Bitburg in Moral and Political Perspective (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1986), pp. 241–4.
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Hochstadt, S. (2004). The Aftermath. In: Hochstadt, S. (eds) Sources of the Holocaust. Documents in History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-21440-8_9
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