Wartime atrocity propaganda’s discrediting caused Allied officials to suppress Holocaust news

Evidence

There were reservations in the Ministry of Information in England about spreading news of this sort: experience with the atrocity propaganda in the First World War showed that this kind of material would be dismissed as a concocted horror story. Another fear was that reports about the annihilation of the Jews in countries occupied by the Germans would lead to a revival of anti-Semitism at home. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 376

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the learned pile on how wartime knowledge of the Final Solution went widely disbelieved, even by its victims.
• SEED: Angle: how genuine fear of crying wolf can be weaponized as a bureaucratic alibi for silence — the Ministry of Information’s calculus as a case study in the cost of discredited propaganda.