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Nearly two-thirds of US young adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust
UK Guardian ^ | September 16, 2020 | Harriet Sherwood

Posted on 09/16/2020 8:36:00 AM PDT by C19fan

Almost two-thirds of young American adults do not know that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and more than one in 10 believe Jews caused the Holocaust, a new survey has found, revealing shocking levels of ignorance about the greatest crime of the 20th century.

According to the study of millennial and Gen Z adults aged between 18 and 39, almost half (48%) could not name a single concentration camp or ghetto established during the second world war.

Almost a quarter of respondents (23%) said they believed the Holocaust was a myth, or had been exaggerated, or they weren’t sure. One in eight (12%) said they had definitely not heard, or didn’t think they had heard, about the Holocaust.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Education; History
KEYWORDS: abrahamaccords; antisemites; conspiracytheory; holocaust; indoctrination; littleredschoolhouse; mohammedbinzayed; school; theholocaust; uae; unitedarabemirates
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To: MarkL
Jews are regularly persecuted on college campuses, especially University of California and most New York colleges like Columbia.

I should have said that those persecuting Jews are other on and off-campus groups, like palestinian groups and blacks. When reported to college administrators, nothing ever happens.

Mark

61 posted on 09/16/2020 9:57:53 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: C19fan

And how many know of them as “Polish Death Camps”, as Obama called them?


62 posted on 09/16/2020 9:57:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

What will the youth be lied to about next?

Vote Dem and hang on to your Trump hats.


63 posted on 09/16/2020 9:59:29 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner
Holocaust museums are important. HISTORY... is important.


"Welcome to the Time Masheen, we are going to take you back...First to the year 1939 when Charlie Chaplin and his evil Nazi regime enslaved Europe and tried to take over the world!"

64 posted on 09/16/2020 10:02:38 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Jewbacca
Ashkenazi Jews are generally white.

That's what Hoess, the Auschwitz Kommandant remarked in his memoirs before his execution, he was shocked when he noticed that the Jews he was sending to the Gas Chambers, didn't look much different than average Germans, contrary to the propaganda he was fed.

65 posted on 09/16/2020 10:04:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: cnsmom

There’s a certain episode of “War and Remembrance” everyone should watch, as painful as it may be to watch.


66 posted on 09/16/2020 10:06:36 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: BunnySlippers

If you go to Vietnam today, it’s as if the war never happened. Lots of Americans are even moving there to retire.


67 posted on 09/16/2020 10:08:25 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

Eisenhower was prescient.

Eisenhower had the Army Signal Corps film the horrors of the camps, because he said in 50 years some son of bitch will say that it never happened.


68 posted on 09/16/2020 10:09:16 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Women's intuition" gave us the Salem witch trials and Kavanaugh hearings. Change my mind.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Edward R. Murrow - Buchenwald (1945)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ffpIHnuaw


69 posted on 09/16/2020 10:11:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

And the rest never heard of the Holocaust or have any idea where on the globe Germany or even Europe are located.


70 posted on 09/16/2020 10:19:50 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner
Holocaust museums are important. HISTORY... is important CRITICAL.
71 posted on 09/16/2020 10:21:13 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: C19fan

This story has been getting huge play today, but there’s something about it that doesn’t add up. Reading the articles, we learn the survey was commissioned by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, and nothing about the quality of the survey, the actual wording of questions, or interpretation. It seems fishy that this many young people could have avoided seeing the word “holocaust.” Color me skeptical.


72 posted on 09/16/2020 10:23:33 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: GnuThere

A lot of the social justice warriors only know fascism was bad because the fascists fought against the Soviet Union. They have little or no idea about horrors like the Holocaust. They would probably not question a Holocaust-denying Islamist.


73 posted on 09/16/2020 10:38:26 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Jewbacca

That’s definitely no joke, and it’s not just crazed black men on subways. Nick Cannon’s recent comments and the reaction to them revealed that those beliefs are much more widely-held among black Americans than anyone would like to admit.


74 posted on 09/16/2020 10:38:44 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: The Pack Knight

Progressive Jews had better get rid of their rose colored glasses. Most of the ignorance and hate makes its home on the left.


75 posted on 09/16/2020 10:43:02 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: GraceG
Whether this was intentional or not is the ONLY thing up for debate, the fact we didn’t FIRE VAST swaths of our higher management of the intelligence bureaucracy after 9/11 and instead bloated it some more, SPEAKS VOLUMES!

The exclamation point on that coming when the detestable Jamie Gorelick—the single person responsible for the unbreachable wall between the CIA and the FBI by way of her memo prohibiting their cooperation and consultation—was named to the 9/11 Commission.

76 posted on 09/16/2020 10:46:41 AM PDT by Dahoser (Not separation of church and state, but of media and state.)
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To: C19fan

How ever many people were killed by socialists(including nationalist) /communists in the 20th century I bet the number will be larger in the 21st century.

Kids should have to read biographies from the Soviet Union, Communist China, and Nazi Germany.


78 posted on 09/16/2020 10:52:01 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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To: C19fan

Or worse they believe it didn’t happen.


80 posted on 09/16/2020 10:54:08 AM PDT by zek157
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