Nazi perpetrators escaped justice and later benefited from denial of their crimes

Evidence

If so, it provides a final ironic injustice to the victims of the Holocaust. They, along with many other Nazi prisoners, were brutalized and murdered by the powerful forces in German society. These Nazis, because they were powerful and still influential, often escaped from Europe afterward, sometimes with the active help of Allied governments. Even those captured, tried, and convicted usually had their sentences commuted for reasons of political expediency as the Cold War developed. And now, people may not want to know the truth about the Holocaust precisely because it was so horrible. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 3222

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader literature on Holocaust denial and its origins in post-war impunity. — connects to: Postwar denazification systematically rewarded former Nazi sympathizers over resisters. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1717; German respondents denied knowledge of Nazi crimes to preserve collective identification — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2028; Expellees transposed acknowledged Nazi crimes onto their Polish persecutors to deny German guilt — Andrew Demshuk, The Lost German East: Forced Migration…, 698 (+1 more)