Counterpoint: a population that knows the historical truth is less likely to repeat the sins of the past.
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75 years seems a pretty low benchmark to clear before we start declaring historical knowledge a predictive factor in doing bad things.
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That took a lot longer than most people think. In Adenauer's victorious 1949 election campaign, he claimed denazification was going too far and pledged he would never accept the Oder-Neisse line. Acknowledgement of atrocities often took the form of narrowing blame AMAP.
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It wasn't really until Brandt in the late 1960s, and a new generation, that Germans really turned the corner into fully acknowledging and apologising for what they country had done.
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