I went to the website,
newspapers.com, and searched for the number of mentions in US newspapers for phrases related to four major events: “atomic bomb” (for the US use of atomic bombs on two Japanese cities in 1945), “twin towers” (for the 9/11 attacks in 2001), “Pearl Harbor” (for the Japanese attack on the US Navy in 1941), and “moon landing” (for the Apollo 11 mission in 1969).
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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: “Holocaust,” “Nazi death camp,” and “extermination of Europe’s Jews,” which I combined with the results from a separate search on “extermination of European Jews.”
Here are the results:
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Grossly implausibly, there is the event in the 1940s and there is…nothing 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 war—
before the Allied discovery of the systematic extermination of the Jews that had been going on. For example, the term “Nazi death camp” 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 There’s just no way that could happen if there had been actual death camps in Germany or Poland or anywhere else under Nazi occupation.