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.
If you look at WWII bombing accuracy a lot of prisoners would have died. And Nazis would have quickly repaired the rail yards and the crematoriums.
Brining Jewish concentration camp prisoners to the camps had a higher priority then German troop and ammunition movement. There are multiple stories of German supply and troops trains either being commandeered to move prisoners or being held up. Killing innocent people was more important then military operations to the Nazi mind.
Oh, yes. That was the problem when Germany outlawed Mein Kampf as well. I know why they did it but there turned out to be a price to pay.
Quite a few people old enough to have found out the truth are very disturbed at the resemblance between the current academic anti-White Male hate campaign and that of the Nazis against the Jews during the 30's and 40's. Even overt antisemitism is back in style. What the Jews learned then was that the rule of law won't protect you if the state declines to enforce it on the basis of some "higher" social justice aim, which is precisely what the Nazis claimed to be after. The means to that end were staggeringly evil.
Killing innocent people was more important then military operations to the Nazi mind.
Die Wannseekonferenz (The Wannsee Conference)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URSNN5mnI2g
There are some things that need to be taught at all levels to ensure our national survival. All other things, the Dept of Education needs to leave it to the states.
Censorship is never the answer.
We also know from the post War Strategic Bombing Survey that Nazi production peaked at the height of the bombing.
They would have no problem continuing the killing.
-—Sadly even fewer know what the holodomor is...-—
Wasn’t that on Star Ttek ? / S
History Channel no longer talks about it—Just Pickers, etc... I guess its not history now. The greatest generation is dying out, and kids will not watch Black and White film. In a century, it will be totally forgotten.
We actually did bomb Buchenwald on 24 August, 1944. 2000 wounded, 388 dead, no escapes. Even at that stage of the war, “precision” bombing wasn’t.
I remember when it was called, "The Hitler Channel".
The way Liberals carry on about deportation, you would think “Mexico” was Spanish for Auschwitz.
-——What’s Auschwitz you ask?-——
If you asked if Trump ran the camp under Hilter, I bet my last dollar the % who would say yes, would be higher...
“...when Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntAR0IT5pl4
I can name the top ten or twelve death camps right off the top of my head and I wasn’t even born then.
It depends on the school.
I hate polls like this. They really don't tell us much. In some public schools the teachers are allowed to actually spend their time teaching students who are curious and inquisitive. In other public schools, the teachers' primary concern is staying off worldstar as they're getting beaten to a pulp for taking away someone's cell phone.
He would have applauded him being a muzzie and all.
This despite all the attention given to Hitler's Final Solution in both public schools and in popular culture in the decades since WWII. How many Americans and millennials can identify Kolyma, Vorkuta, Lubyanka and Holodmor? Outside of FR, probably not very many.
6 million Jews killed.
No mention of the 7 million Gentiles also killed.
No mention of Uncle Joe who killed twice as many of his own citizens.
No mention of Chairman Mao who killed three times as many.
I have some cousins / relatives who travelled to Europe. Their 16 year old son wanted to “Skateboard at Auschwitz” — so they planned a detour to Poland and he shlepped his skateboard on the airplane and around Europe.
Curious to know if Freeper’s thoughts matched what I told them.....
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