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Unfortunately extensive documentation will not work anymore. We live in an era of live steamed genocides and anyone can look up videos of state officers murdering people in the streets without repercussions and there are still people who cheer them on.
The extensive documentation did little to entrench the understanding that the Holocaust was deplorable, and we ended up, not only with Holocaust deniers, but with those that thought it would have been awesome if it were real.
Pictures of evil are not enough. Words denouncing evil are not enough. Witnessing evil come down upon your neighbors is not enough. Nothing else is enough if those who would commit evil upon others, those who would ignore the necessary social discipline of respect, those who would foster bigotry and intolerance are left to continue.
Devoid of consequence for hate filled destruction it will continue, and the only way to stop it is not through documentation, but active societal resistance.