Street Juice
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I went to the website, newspapers.com, and searched for the number of mentions in US newspapers for phrases related to four major events: âatomic bombâ (for the US use of atomic bombs on two Japanese cities in 1945), âtwin towersâ (for the 9/11 attacks in 2001), âPearl Harborâ (for the Japanese attack on the US Navy in 1941), and âmoon landingâ (for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969).
As one would completely expect, there is a sharp spike in mentions of the event in the decade in which it occurred.
Then I did the same for four phrases that would be associated with the Holocaust: âHolocaust,â âNazi death camp,â and âextermination of Europeâs Jews,â which I combined with the results from a separate search on âextermination of European Jews.â
Here are the results:
Grossly implausibly, there is the event in the 1940s and there isâŚnothing until the 1960s.
Very odd. Very devastatingly odd.
Even more telling, the slight increase in the Holocaust terms during the 1940s occurred mostly before the end of the warâbefore the Allied discovery of the systematic extermination of the Jews that had been going on. For example, the term âNazi death campâ occurs in US papers 516 times between 1943 and 1945 when the wartime propaganda machine was churning out boatloads of anti-Nazi atrocity stories, then drops by nearly 70 percent upon the actual discovery of the Nazi death camps?1 Thereâs just no way that could happen if there had been actual death camps in Germany or Poland or anywhere else under Nazi occupation.
As one would completely expect, there is a sharp spike in mentions of the event in the decade in which it occurred.
Then I did the same for four phrases that would be associated with the Holocaust: âHolocaust,â âNazi death camp,â and âextermination of Europeâs Jews,â which I combined with the results from a separate search on âextermination of European Jews.â
Here are the results:
Grossly implausibly, there is the event in the 1940s and there isâŚnothing until the 1960s.
Very odd. Very devastatingly odd.
Even more telling, the slight increase in the Holocaust terms during the 1940s occurred mostly before the end of the warâbefore the Allied discovery of the systematic extermination of the Jews that had been going on. For example, the term âNazi death campâ occurs in US papers 516 times between 1943 and 1945 when the wartime propaganda machine was churning out boatloads of anti-Nazi atrocity stories, then drops by nearly 70 percent upon the actual discovery of the Nazi death camps?1 Thereâs just no way that could happen if there had been actual death camps in Germany or Poland or anywhere else under Nazi occupation.