This is a disturbing stat.
EUROPE - One in five young Germans unaware of Auschwitz: poll
One in five young Germans has no idea that Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp, a poll released Wednesday showed, two days ahead of Holocaust memorial day.
Although 90 percent of those asked did know it was a concentration camp, the poll for Thursday's edition of Stern news magazine revealed that Auschwitz meant nothing to 21 percent of 18-29 year olds.
And nearly a third of the 1,002 people questioned last Thursday and Friday for the poll were unaware that Auschwitz was in today's Poland.
The poll comes ahead of the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops on January 27, 1945, which Germany has marked since 1996 with official memorial ceremonies for Holocaust victims.
According to a report by independent experts commissioned by the German parliament and published earlier this week, about one in five Germans is latently anti-Semitic.
Scary... It looks like it could be happening again. The NDAA authorizing martial law and indefinite detention, execution, and torture of american citizens. I think the media has been keeping people blind to whats going on. And now they took the internet with ACTA.
ReplyDeleteI wonder why you are questioning Great Leader. You know some have disappeared for thinking such. How dare you!
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I don't think it's happening again, but things like the statement in the NDAA that "I can hold people without reason...but I won't" make anyone nervous.