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==Evidence in Germany==
{{See also|Responsibility for the Holocaust#The German people}}
German society largely responded to the enormity of the evidence for and the horror of the Holocaust with an attitude of self-justification and a practice of keeping quiet. Germans attempted to rewrite their own history to make it more palatable in the post-war era.<ref>Margolin, Elaine.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20180123193205/http://jewishjournal.com/culture/books/156195/ "The Post-War West Germans’ Post-Holocaust Distortions."] ''Jewish Journal''.  6 February 2014.  9 February 2015.</ref> For decades, West Germany and then unified Germany refused to allow access to its Holocaust-related archives in [[Bad Arolsen]], citing privacy concerns. In May 2006, a 20-year effort by the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] led to the announcement that 30–50&nbsp;million pages would be made available to survivors, historians and others.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060426045101/http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8633EA3D-1AC2-41DF-9B7B-D2C385B1E10F.htm Germany to open Holocaust archives] [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al-Jazeera]] 19 April 2006.</ref>