Interesting, although horrifying, post from ww2today.com leads to a follow-up about conspiracy speeches. This is important right now, as the 2016 presidential campaign has fueled quite a few bizarre conspiracy theories.
The biggest, most awful conspiracy in history was the Nazi Holocaust. The German government went to great effort to cover up evidence of the atrocities. All the same, before too long, enough people had seen horrible things that ordinary Germans knew what was happening. Eyewitness testimony was circulating widely.
One of many lessons to draw: if a conspiracy is big, it doesn't stay secret, and people know.
This doesn't mean that we don't need to worry about conspiracies. Real people do conspire to do evil things. It does, however, mean that the world is not run by huge conspiracies. Real conspiracies are never perfect, and, the bigger the conspiracy, the less perfect the conspiracy will be. Truth has a funny way of coming out.
This is one reason that suspicion, minor anomalies, or unanswered questions are not enough to prove a conspiracy. Conspiracy theorists need to produce present affirmative proof.
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