There was a fake memoir a while back about a Jewish girl who escaped the Holocaust and roamed with a pack of wolves. After it was debunked, people wondered why otherwise non gullible readers had accepted something so preposterous. I think the reason is that children who really did survive the Holocaust often benefited from multiple bizarre lucky chances. The odds were so against them, if they only had one weird narrow escape, they didn't survive the next encounter. Read enough of the true stories, and a pack of friendly wolves seems tame. So to speak.
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There was a fake memoir a while back about a Jewish girl who escaped the Holocaust and roamed with a pack of wolves. After it was debunked, people wondered why otherwise non gullible readers had accepted something so preposterous. I think the reason is that children who really did survive the Holocaust often benefited from multiple bizarre lucky chances. The odds were so against them, if they only had one weird narrow escape, they didn't survive the next encounter. Read enough of the true stories, and a pack of friendly wolves seems tame. So to speak.