Though some references to the Holocaust were made during and just following World War II, this recognition of it as a separate systematic genocide grew over time. The broader acknowledgment and understanding of the Holocaust were delayed by several key factors: 1 So the immediate post-war concern: immediately after World War II, one was dealing with reconstruction in Europe and all of this kind of stuff. Although the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46 ultimately did lead to a posthumous conviction for Hitler, and addressed crimes against humanity (e.g. terming Holocaust), it was primarily concerned with more general war crimes committed by the Nazi regime+ 2. **Survivors' Trauma and Silence**: Most of the survivors of the holocaust were affected in so many ways and many of them could hardly talk of their ordeal. The scale of the event was usually difficult to grasp, even for people who were directly affected by it since it was so overwhelming. This made some survivors to keep off fr...
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