I watched a podcast guy interview college students (California) and ask routine history questions (who won the Civil War, who were the AXIS in WW II, etc).
Maybe 20-percent knew the answers....rest had no idea. Somehow, they are skipping high school history, and getting zero history out of the college period. In some way, they are probably dumber at age 20, than they were at age 10.
There is more to it than just ignorance. How many watched the movie “Shindler’s List”? It is projected in high schools all over. Its a great movie. How many students go to the local Holocaust Museum? Millions. Its a must do field trip. Every movie about WW II must talk about the horrors of the Death Camps. No, it has been over done and now the students reject it as propaganda. They toss it into the junk file. The current moves are not out of ignorance—but because they have taken up the Victim/victimizer view of History. In that view—Israel is Nazi Germany and Arabs become Jews.