“Who remembers the Armenians?” said Adolf Hitler to dismiss claims that the World wouldn’t let him get away with his “Final Solution.” Hitler was referring to the near genocide of the Armenian people by Turks during World War I, which by 1939, the world seemed to have forgotten.
Hitler was counting on two peculiar aspects of human nature: That people are all too ready to believe, without any real evidence, even an outrageous lie, so long as it is repeated many times and as loud as possible. And that no matter the horror of the atrocity, people just forget over time.