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In May 1945, Hitler’s military machinery was crushed by the Allied forces and the Third Reich collapsed, bringing 12 years of brutalizing Nazi terror to an end. By then, however, some six million Jews — two-thirds of the Jews living in occupied Europe — and millions of non-Jews were already murdered. The liberated prisoners and the thousands of unburied corpses in the concentration camps presented a shocking sight. The horrifying reality — man’s inhumanity toward his fellow man — could no longer be ignored or denied.
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Berger, L. (1983). A Psychological Perspective of the Holocaust. In: Braham, R.L. (eds) Perspectives on the Holocaust. Holocaust Studies Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-6864-7_2
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