Posted on 04/12/2018 1:45:41 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Newser – Thursday is Holocaust Remembrance Day, and a new survey suggests the day is sorely needed. The results show that many Americans, particularly young adults, lack a basic understanding of the Nazi genocide during World War II. Though 96% of respondents said the Holocaust took place, 31% believe a maximum of 2 million Jews were killed, well under the actual figure of about 6 million, reports the New York Times. The percentage increased to 41% among millennials, defined as those aged 18 to 34. Some 41% of Americans and 66% of millennials had no idea about Auschwitz, the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland where an estimated 1.1 million were killed, per WFTS.
The executive vice president of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which seeks restitution for Holocaust victims and their heirs and commissioned the February survey of 1,350 respondents, says the gaps in understanding are "troubling" given that some 400,000 Holocaust survivors are still living. "Imagine when there are no longer survivors here to tell their stories," he says, stressing the importance of Holocaust education. He's backed by survey respondents, 93% of whom said it was important to teach about the Holocaust in schools. While experts say there's nothing quite like hearing about the genocide directly from a survivor, museums are preparing for a time when no survivors remain, using holograms and recorded testimony to keep their stories alive, notes the Times.
Auschwitz is what happens when you let neo-liberals take away your guns and trample your Constitutional Rights.
I went there last year.
You really can’t imagine it, even seeing it in person.
Auschwitz is what happens when you have a National Socialist government.
Our schools don’t teach anything else; why would they teach that?
However, the mere suggestion that the Holocaust was a fraud got SJWs' panties in a bunch so they outlawed such talk. Now nobody talks about the Holocaust and lots of people have either forgotten or never knew.
Talk about the law of unintended consequences!
So 96% of Americans know about the Holocaust and 59% know what Auschwitz was.
I’d guess both are a significantly higher % of Americans than know about the American Revolution or the Civil War.
Sadly even fewer know what the holodomor is...
If the Mayor of London watched Schindler’s list, Sad Dick Khan probably wonders if they banned knives too...
>>66% of millennials had no idea about Auschwitz
Oops. When Hollywood stopped making a new Auto-Oscar-winner Holocaust movie every year and started making movies about the “black struggles”, Auschwitz became old news.
Thank publik skoooooools, education majors, universities without academic standards, and possibly the most naive collection of below 30s in the multiverse.
"Never again!"
in to
"What happened? No way. No one would ever do anything like that - except maybe the republicans."
Or The Killing Fields.
If they do teach about Auschwitz, they blame FDR for not bombing the camp.
Then turn around and say how evil we were for bombing Dresden.
I’m pretty sure it was not an unintended consequence.
The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р); derived from морити голодом, "to kill by starvation"), also known as the Terror-Famine and Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, and—before the widespread use of the term "Holodomor", and sometimes currently—also referred to as the Great Famine (Wikipedia)
Then turn around and say how evil we were for bombing Dresden.
Is there really a contradiction there?
"Bombing the camp" probably means destroying the rail approaches or taking out the crematoria, not killing the prisoners.
It’s illegal in several Western countries to merely object to “official” narratives about the Holocaust.
The truth...even as defined by the Holocaust Museum in Israel...is not a defense.
The point is, that they always want to blame the US for everything.
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