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What conspiracy theory do you think might be true? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] AnOrdinaryDog@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

The holocaust was a secret, it was a huge conspiracy among the German elite to carry out mass-executions of jews and others in the camps, a theory about which managed to circulate among the German population and elsewhere, but was doubted and contested. Until suddenly, allied armies liberated the camps and revealed to the world what was happening in them.

So it existed first as conspiracy and conspiracy-theory, before suddenly becoming a matter of public record.