World War II is one of the most documented conflicts in all of world history, with countless memoirs, documents, recorded recollections, pictures, and movies. But when it comes to the conflict, one of the most chilling records was the Nazi documentation of its own Holocaust atrocities. It begs the question - why did they keep a record of their own crimes?

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