Showing the video is horribly painful but necessary imho. Both of the events then a the events now. Had there not been so much video evidence released then, I wonder how much larger the holocaust denial would have been.
Got our first TV back in 1956. Lots of shows on TV then that showed the holocaust in terrifying details. Even this 9 year old kid was shocked! Dad saw it first hand back in 1945. He would not talk about it.
Such shows stopped being shown on TV as “too horrible” and “glorifying violence”. back around 1968. Now only shows with “smooth scenes” are shown on TV today. Even scenes of the horrors of Vietnam were removed.
After the capture of Adolf Eichmann programs about him on TV then had horrible scenes of the mass killings.
I still remember the scenes of bulldozers pushing hundreds of dead prisoners into mass trenches for burial after the war.
I suppose the young in our days were raised to tougher standards than the “fainthearts” of today.
I have to say - if it wasn’t for my 6th grade English teacher I don’t think I would have heard anything said in school about the Holocaust. I thought he was a jerk but it opened my eyes to something that an 11 year old doesn’t normally consider. Beyond that experience, I started reading more about how the world was shaped geopolitically at that age. My mother’s input on matters of faith and how the secular world handled matters collided at that time for me. Another 20 years would pass before my form of ‘jingoism’ would be unraveled
“The Holocaust is one of the worst events in all of human history”
True. 6 million Jews and some 5 million others murdered by racist socialists.
However, Never Forget the 100,000,000 murdered by communism in 80 years, more dead than all combatants in all wars in all of mankind’s history.
Every year I showed my 8th-grade students a documentary called ‘Memory of the Camps’ that I recorded from a PBS documentary. You can see it on YouTube. I warned them that I was taking them to hell. The quality of my tape was terrible, which was a bit of a blessing. The scenes were so gruesome that even ‘tough’ jaded eighth graders found it hard to watch.
I showed it to them because I knew that with the passage of time the Holocaust would pass out of living memory and then could be denied with some impunity as we are seeing now.
I stumbled upon some videos on YouTube where they ask young college students and other young people simple questions. The people (many) that they show on camera can’t answer the questions. Here’s a sample of the questions they couldn’t answer:
- How many states are in the United States?
- What continent is the United States on?
- How much is 3x3x3?
- Show them an analog clock and ask them what time it is.
- Who fought in the Civil War?
...
That's what you get
when your education system degenerates to the extent that you teach "feminist studies" and LGBQTXYZ instead of reading, writing, and arithmetic,when schools become indoctrination centers for political propaganda,
when affirmative action determines the selection of teachers,
when the search for TRUTH is held in contempt,
when education leaders cannot tell the difference between right and wrong,
when all standards are lowered
and when the ability to read and write is no longer a criterion for graduating from high school.
What else would anyone expect?
What consequences does any intelligent, benevolent person expect when the US military is degraded like the US education system has been?
When the US government has been so degraded?
The US Free Press?
What will be the consequences of the degradation of all institutions and standards?
BETCHA THEY ALL KNOW ABOUT “PARTICIPATION TROPHIES”.
New Survey Showing Public Ignorance Among Young Americans
FIFY
Not in this house.
They all learned about it from me.
Never again.
Not in this house.
They all learned about it from me.
Never again.
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There’s an entire museum in the District of Corruption dedicated to the Holocaust. I was there in 2018.
We should all remember that Nazism and the Holocaust probably couldn’t have happened without pervasive ignorance, envy, resentment of intelligence and talent, etc., and a related willingness to believe outrageous myths and lies. Germanic minds might have been more rigid than most at that time, but the US and the world were not immune.
It’s also worth remembering that about 10% of the US population is very low-IQ, with another 10%+ is addled by drugs. For a random survey to yield 20% buck idiots is not surprising.
1 in 5 young Americans believe the Holocaust is a "myth."
The title of the article is factually incorrect and deceptively flattering of these students. If young people were actually ignorant about the Holocaust, they would be unaware of it. However, this survey shows that they know exactly what it is and that they are actively denying that it occurred. They aren't ignorant at all. They are misinformed and deluded.