But I want to know what happened to them after the War, whether there were many changes in the head families, like the Rockefellers, or in the corporate leadership, and whether the whole conglomerate was taken over & 'denazified,' just like Germany was taken over.
You're probably close to the mark there, it's not hard to change your name legally.
Sometimes victims can't recall a face at all, which is odd, because it's normally something that is crystal clear as long as they saw it.
Witnesses who witnessed under duress are proven unreliable, but get used anyway for convenience.
Thank you for your reply, it actually raises many interesting points. Now I want to do some research of my own to follow up, I'll save this post and come back with my findings.
Well, I guess I might be wrong but I thought that extremely traumatic memories are seared into your mind, even from younger ages, and you can remember details that you wouldn't usually otherwise remember.
It's different when it happens to someone else, if you witness something happening to someone, you empathize with it and a lot of detail becomes muddy as a result. The witnesses mood has a lot to do with that, say the witness is scared, he/she will change the person's details in their mind to follow suit. Might remember the assailant as more menacing or distort the eyes to match what the person is feeling. That sort of thing.
Oh, right. Well, in some cases of child abuse testimonies the children would accuse a cartoon character of abusing them (which is easily dismissed), but then actually it was revealed that the perpetrator would get into a costume of that character. I can't remember the specifics, unfortunately. It's a similar issue. There's also the issue of hallucinogenic drugs being used to warp memories.
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