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Holocaust Deniers Protect Loved Ones' Reputation

Many Holocaust deniers Storr traveled with had parents who served on the Nazi side, suggesting their denial functions to avoid believing the culturally dominant story that their loved ones were evil—a cognitive mission to prove their parents weren't monsters.

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Speaker

Will Storr

Evidence Quote

they felt they were on this great cognitive kind of mission a lot of them to prove that their moms and dads probably that you know who they loved weren't evil

Source

294 - Status GamesMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 1:55:49 AM

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