Maybe history textbooks from 1950,1960, 1970,...
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I have a WW2 history book printed in 1945. It only has 1 line in it about the Holocaust, doesn't call it by name of course, but does claim that Hitler killed millions of Jews. So they were printing that in books even that early because the narrative had already been established.
By contrast, my 1958 Grolier's Encyclopedia set doesn't really mention anything about it. It just says that Hitler deported a lot of Jews and "shot innocents in batches."