Nearly half of Britons never heard of Auschwitz

Yahoo! News ^ | Thu Dec 2, 8:20 AM ET | U.K. - AFP

[RPTMS]

Perhaps if they knew more about some of those continentals, they would be less enthusiastic about the EU.

[Buford T. Justice]

Sad... very sad.

[Joe Bonforte]

And these are the people who want to tell us how to run our foreign policy.

[presidentbowen]

I can't even stomach what went on at those death camps. How awful, and yet history is repeating itself in that fashion in North Korea and Sudan.

[ken5050]

I believe I has seen much of the film from the BBC series. During the liberation of the camps, the combat photographers with the Brit units filmed everything...words truly fail....

[Mears]

I'll bet a higher percent of Americans have never heard of Auschwitz-------half of them couldn't find North America on a blank map!

[RPTMS]

You're probably right.

[Ptarmigan]

Ironic because Aushwitz is much closer to England then America. How does this happen? I wonder if this happens in mainland Europe and in the Muslim world?

[Petes Sandy Girl]

A pile of human bones and skulls are left at a Nazi concentration camp in Poland. A BBC television poll found that 45 percent of those questioned have never heard of the Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland.

Unbelievable. Makes you wonder what they teach in their schools... a sanitized version of history?

[Mears]

When my son visited Auschwitz about 10 years ago the thing that bothered him the most were the baby shoes---he said it was gut-wrenching.

All the little shoes!!!!!!

[henderson field]

Judging from the way the British have embraced the laws of the Nazis, they haven't heard of World War II, either. Don't forget that the inspiration for George Orwell's "1984" was the left-wing British Labour Party intellectuals , the ones he worked with at the BBC during WWII. The society depicted in "1984" is exactly the kind that these people would create if they ever got into power. Now they have and now it is.

[jigsaw]

I've never heard of these 'Britons.' Who are they?

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

Go down in the hood and conduct the same poll. I'd wager less than 1% even know what Germany is, let alone the Holocaust.

[WHBates]

LOL

[Ptarmigan]

Sadly, lot of those Nazis never saw justice. Many fled Europe to either South America, like Argentina, or Middle East, like Syria, and continued on their crimes like terrorism especially in the Middle East.

[bjs1779]

When my son visited Auschwitz about 10 years ago the thing that bothered him the most were the baby shoes---he said it was gut-wrenching. All the little shoes!!!!!!

Taken inside a huge glass case in the Auschwitz Museum. This represents one day's collection at the peak of the gassings, about twenty five thousand pairs.

[ml1954]

Wasn't there a study in the US in the recent past that showed that only half of college students knew which half of the 19th century the US Civil War was in? The results might have been even worse if the question was about Auschwitz.

[CitadelArmyJag]

Buenos Dias Mein Fuhrer!

[Ptarmigan]

Sounds like an Argentine Nazis to me.

[Ptarmigan]

Sadly in the Muslim world and academia, this type of act is praised. Adolf Eichmann was the one who executed the Holocaust and Muslims called him a martyr and hero for what he did.