On denial and more

This item is a week old but appropriately posted on an infamous birthday:

The president of Austria has become the country's first head of state to admit that a large number of its citizens welcomed Adolf Hitler with open arms when the dictator annexed the country.
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Surveys show that most Austrians continue to deny that 200,000 people welcomed Hitler's troops as they marched into Austria, despite the overwhelming evidence that ecstatic crowds gathered at Heldenplatz in Vienna's city centre to hear him deliver a rousing speech.

The view most commonly held still is that the Anschluss was forced on a reluctant people.

Mr Fischer picked holes in the 1955 declaration of independence which he said had helped establish the false picture of the country's history which still endures.

"I find the version of history which it presents very problematic," he said. "It is full of cliches that for decades stood in the way of an honest appraisal of what happened in Austria and why it happened."

That's about denial and more: about the social extent of the darkness that descended across Nazi-occupied Europe.