Nearly Half of Britons Unaware of Auschwitz?

[Alistar7]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne..._nm/media_auschwitz_dc

LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly half of Britons in a poll said they had never heard of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in southern Poland that became a symbol of the Holocaust and the attempted genocide of the Jews.

 

[CanOWorms]

"It's easy to presume that the horrors of Auschwitz are engrained in the nation's collective memory, but obviously this is not the case," Rees said.

Just because they don't remember specifically the name Auschwitz doesn't mean that they don't know the horrors.

 

[Alistar7]

"The survey found that 45 percent of those surveyed had not heard of Auschwitz."

 

[RabidMongoose]

The sad thing is that I think it would be about the same here in the US. It just boggles my mind that some people don't even know about things like this.

 

[imported_Aelius]

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
The sad thing is that I think it would be about the same here in the US. It just boggles my mind that some people don't even know about things like this.

Poor education. We teach them about some fuzzy feel good history and leave out the gory reality of what life is and was like.

Really sad and this is true just about anywhere.

EDIT: Oh and kids don't care. Pokemon, beer, and parties are far more important than learning from history. At least that's what I recall from seeing in highschool. Almost nobody cared about history. Then again the history thought was retardedly boring. I mean really who cares that some French trappers and found some river in Upper Canada. Lame.

 

[tnitsuj]

Probably at least the same number in the US.

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: tnitsuj
Probably at least the same number in the US.

Doubt that, but can't do anything but speculate about it can we.....

 

[tnitsuj]

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: tnitsuj
Probably at least the same number in the US.

Doubt that, but can't do anything but speculate about it can we.....

Ridiculous numbers of people can't even name the Vice President. Why would they know the name of a concentration camp?

 

[Alistar7]

Auschwitz is the one most people do know, it is the definitive SYMBOL of the holocaust. They don't change that every four years, and that is a big more significant than the current and ever changing Presidents sidekick. Most probably couldn't name the one we have now, because he prefers to be invisible and always does his best to make himself seem nonexistent.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
The sad thing is that I think it would be about the same here in the US. It just boggles my mind that some people don't even know about things like this.

They don't teach it in the U.S. anymore. Basically they are only going back 50 yrs in history as they concentrate more on math that has slipped so bad and reading as well.

Also have eliminated much of science as well especially anything that has to do with evolution and biology.

 

[outriding]

No what really is sad is the people who dent the fact that the holocaust never happened.

 

[Colt45]

I wonder what percentage of them know about Jasenovac?

It was smaller scale than auschwitz, but I don't think I've ever met anyone that isn't from the balkans that knows about it.
It was still huge, and many people killed.. sad days...

 

[GMElias]

Originally posted by: RabidMongoose
The sad thing is that I think it would be about the same here in the US. It just boggles my mind that some people don't even know about things like this.

not surprising considering the anti-semetic sentiments in this world, especially problematic in Europe (France most of all). In any case, this is simply not a consideration in our educational system...what, teach history??? Heaven forbid. Instead, let's take our kids to Sunday school and teach them solely about religion and keep them shallow and ignorant....ignorance is bliss
-Elias

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: tnitsuj
Probably at least the same number in the US.

Doubt that, but can't do anything but speculate about it can we.....

Sad to say, but the percentage might even be higher here. The older people in England had a MUCH more immediate experience in WWII, what with the blitz and far more severe rationing and shortages and economic deprivation, which lasted YEARS after the war ended, btw -- not to mention the fact that they were in the thick of it long before Japan sucker punched us and we woke up. Remember, in the darkest days, Churchill had given orders to civilian guards who would take to the hills and be the last ditch stand against the Wehrmacht's cross channel invasion, which Olde England was ill prepared to withstand, having left more than 90% of their available armor behind with the BEF in France.

Apparently the young, even in England, don't know and don't care. Sad.

"Don't mention the war" -- John Cleese, Monty Python, Faulty Towers.

 

[Spencer278]

Originally posted by: tnitsuj

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: tnitsuj
Probably at least the same number in the US.

Doubt that, but can't do anything but speculate about it can we.....

Ridiculous numbers of people can't even name the Vice President. Why would they know the name of a concentration camp?

Hell I would be surpised if 55% of americians even know poland was in WWII.

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: Spencer278

Originally posted by: tnitsuj

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: tnitsuj
Probably at least the same number in the US.

Doubt that, but can't do anything but speculate about it can we.....

Ridiculous numbers of people can't even name the Vice President. Why would they know the name of a concentration camp?

Hell I would be surpised if 55% of americians even know poland was in WWII.

I'd be surprised if 55% of Americans knew what Poland is at all.

I like this game.

 

[magomago]

Nope I didn't know what auchswitz was till earlier this year. I like history, but for some reason the WWI and WW2 never peaked my interest too much. But just because I didn't know the name doesn't mean I am unaware of what went on, and I can probably think of 20 people that don't know the name "Auschwitz" but still know about what went on

 

[raildogg]

just saw a special about the SS, and the deliberate murder on mass by the Germans. In Auschwitz and other camps, I knew of this before and have seen videos, but man it is chilling.

The amount of evil in those Nazi's was unbelievable, one minute they were great family men, other minute they sent hundreds of thousands to be gassed and butchered.

Everyone needs to watch videos on what actually happened, about the Nazi's (their many divisions) and specifically the Holocaust. It really is chilling.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Wow. thread back from the dead.

 

[AnImuS]

if ya ask me the japs were as or harsher then the germans. crazy mofos

 

[miketheidiot]

Does this actually surprise anyone?

 

[Drift3r]

Originally posted by: AnImuS
if ya ask me the japs were as or harsher then the germans. crazy mofos

As bad as the Germans and Japanese were during WW2, nothing can compare to Stalin and the sheer number of peoples who died inadvertently or directly from his orders.

 

[imported_alp]

you can't blame school too much, i'm pretty sure we learned about the holocaust and auschwitz (in england)

 

[Schrodinger]

Originally posted by: Colt45
I wonder what percentage of them know about Jasenovac?

It was smaller scale than auschwitz, but I don't think I've ever met anyone that isn't from the balkans that knows about it.
It was still huge, and many people killed.. sad days...

"Father Petar Brzica, a Catholic priest, cut the throats of 1,360 prisoners with a especially designed butcher's knife (called srbosjek or Serb-cutter)."

I'm speechless :Q

 

[Mardeth]

The saddest thing in my opinion is that american pilots could have easily destroyed the railways connecting to Auschwitz but for whatever reason didnt.

By the way, Ive been to Auschwitz, at both camps. Not pretty, I can tell you that.