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“Norman Cohn was by training a medieval historian rather than a modern historian, but he served in World War II and after the War he was prompted to ask himself how Germany, this advanced, apparently civilized modern nation had degenerated into this incredible barbarism and had perpetrated this mass genocide, the Holocaust. And the answer he came up with is that what enabled this atrocity was conspiracy theory. It was the myth of Jewish control of the world, which was believed in by the Nazis. Cohn focuses on this document, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which was the central document of anti-Semitic literature.” Read more...
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