Immense crimes render legal punishment absurd and make killers’ lies credible

Evidence

This doubt of people concerning themselves and the reality of their own experience only reveals what the Nazis have always known: that men determined to commit crimes will find it expedient to organize them on the vastest, most improbable scale. Not only because this renders all punishments provided by the legal system inadequate and absurd; but because the very immensity of the crimes guarantees that the murderers who proclaim their innocence with all manner of lies will be more readily believed than the victims who tell the truth. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 984

Categorization

• QUESTION: Does the scale-credibility mechanism Arendt identifies here generalize to contemporary genocide denial and atrocity skepticism?