<span>Despite his personal opposition to slavery, when President Abraham Lincoln took office in 1861 he insisted that his constitutional duty was to keep the nation together, not to abolish slavery. He conducted the first year of the war with the goal of reuniting the Union, but wartime events, including heavy military losses and the many slaves who escaped behind Union battle lines, forced him to contend with the issue of slavery. He issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862 and the final version on January 1, 1863, fundamentally changing the meaning of the war.</span>
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Answer: B. The horrors of the Holocaust have been exaggerated or were isolated incidents.
According to the <em>International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, d</em>istortion of the Holocaust includes especially the following:
- <em>Intentional efforts to excuse or minimize the impact of the Holocaust or its principal elements, including collaborators and allies of Nazi Germany;</em>
- <em>Gross minimization of the number of the victims of the Holocaust in contradiction to reliable sources;</em>
- <em>Attempts to blame the Jews for causing their own genocide ...</em>
- <em>Attempts to blur the responsibility for the establishment of concentration and death camps devised and operated by Nazi Germany by putting blame on other nations or ethnic groups.</em>
