The second most popular conservative book in the 1950s is called...
Mark Taylor@Mark___Taylor
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Mar 31, 2026
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The second most popular conservative book in the 1950s is called Iron Curtain Over America, written by an Intel officer during the war. It explicitly denied the Holocaust as we know it.
Believe it or not there was a time when Americans just assumed it was war propaganda. 1/
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Believe it or not there was a time when Americans just assumed it was war propaganda. 1/
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We didn’t really see the holocaust become anything to Americans until decades later when lots of movies and TV shows were made about it.
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It wasn’t even mentioned in old history books and encyclopedias.
Making it maybe the only historical event that moved from Hollywood to the history books instead of vice versa.
Making it maybe the only historical event that moved from Hollywood to the history books instead of vice versa.
