re: New survey: 41% of US adults and 66% of Millennials can't identify Auschwitz

is Auschwitz the girl Blake Shelton wrote a song about?

P.S. if this is Auschwitz, I still Love you

I honestly don't know how this is even possible. WW2 is one of the cornerstones of even basic history classes.

Identify? I couldn’t pin point it on a map, but I know about it and what happened

fricking Millennials.

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It's ok, they're very efficient with Excel

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and phone apps......don't forget about the phone apps

Here is a map.

Please identify Auschwitz

I would fail

Hi fran

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Without using a computer can you identify: a)approximate number of casualties in the civil war b)approximate number of casualties in WWII c)% of american indians exterminated d)approximate number of casualties in the spanish inquisition? No didn't think so. So shut up. This is a pointless statistic and is completely irrelevant

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No no no that’s bad-think.

The most relevant thing to all facets of American life is the horror of the Holocaust. It’s not enough that our grandfathers fought, bled, and died to stop the Nazis, we also have to constantly think about the Holocaust forever, as if we did it ourselves.

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The frick is that?

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A strip of the former Second Reich that was gifted to Poland in the Treaty of Versailles, but it was filled with a bunch of Germans. Native Pole action against the ethnic Germans is what prompted a response from the Nazis.

Danzig is on the Baltic coast, fairly close to the modern German border IIRC

The accepted number is 6 million. It’s not a random number, it’s backed up with the meticulous records the Nazis kept, and census type information from Jewish towns and communities.

For instance My paternal grandfather’s Village in Poland, which was a village of renowned Jewish tailors for 500 years, was rounded up over a three day period in May 1943 and brought to the camps. There are lists of every name, the day they were rounded up, and the day they arrived. None ever returned.

My kids have received homework assignments on “ white privilege” at school. They have received their Holocaust knowledge and their Vietnamese diaspora ( their Mom) and their Irish Potato Famine ( my Maternal side ) knowledge from us. The schools generally stick to a Black Victimology template and ignore our common human stories.

Obviously the Holocaust is given priority on the historical victimization list by Hollywood and historians while others are ignored. And that angers people who have Holocaust- fatigue. Armenia anyone? Cambodia? Ireland ? Nobody cares. But there is no need to minimize the Holocaust just because like black slavery we have been bludgeoned with it every day of our life. Maybe we would be better off if we explained that we all share the same story of human struggle, war and death.