From Public Understanding of the Holocaust, From WWII to Today:
In the summer of 1944, the New York Times ran reports on the mass killing of Jewish people under the Nazis. In November of that year, 76% of Americans in a Gallup poll said they believed the stories that Germans had murdered many people in concentration camps. When respondents were asked to estimate the number of people who had been killed in these camps, however, it was clear that the extent of the atrocity was not yet understood. While 33% refused to venture a guess, 36% thought the number killed was under 100,000, 8% between 100,000 and 1,000,000, and 24% thought a million or more. By May of 1945, more of the public had come to accept the truth of what had happened, though some still held doubts. Eighty-four percent of Americans in a Gallup poll said they believed reports that the Germans had killed many people in concentration camps or let them starve to death. In this poll, the median estimate of the number killed in the camps was 1 million, still far below the actual numbers as estimated by today’s historians.Were the leaders or the people to blame?
A 1944 NORC survey found that 40% of Americans believed that German people should be blamed for the cruelties to religious groups, the mass killings in occupied countries, and the tortures in concentration camps. When given the choice of laying blame with both the leaders and the German people in a 1945 NORC survey, 52% said both bore the blame, while 42% said only the Nazi leaders, and 4% just the people.
Should the pictures be shown?
Although historically there have often been debates over the appropriateness of widespread distribution of photographs that provide brutal evidence of atrocities, Americans after WWII overwhelmingly wanted the atrocities of concentration camps to be exposed with photographic evidence. Nearly nine in ten in a 1945 Gallup poll said they thought pictures of “the horrible things that have happened in prison camps run by Germans” should be shown to all the German people, and 87% to all German POWs in the States. Eighty-three percent wanted to see the pictures for themselves. Six in ten thought these pictures should be shown in movie theaters throughout the US.
How many people understand the true evil of the cabal currently in power? How will the depravity be revealed, so that we can say, "Never again." ?
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This is an outstanding analogy you have made to the inability of people to imagine what was going on in the Nazi death camps.
Today, I am afraid it is children who are born off the grid and fed to the monster.