EUROPE - One in five young Germans unaware of Auschwitz: poll

That's nothing, some Stanford Grad Student's have no clue what the Cold War was! (from Peter Robinson Uncommon Knowledge Interview)

As with all things, banning the 'Swastika' symbol and "Mein Kampf" in Germany just added a mystique to the genocidal murderous thugs the Nazis were. Like a telling a child (and adults) don't do something makes them want to do that thing more.

EUROPE - One in five young Germans unaware of Auschwitz: poll

JANUARY 26, 2012

Auschwitz: Ignoring History, Predicting the Future

excerpt Alan Caruba, 2012

....Several generations of Americans have passed through our school systems—literally controlled by the federal government after the creation of the Department of Education in 1979 after being transferred from the former Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a legacy of Jimmy Carter’s single term. All curriculum taught in the schools comes from the DOE thanks to its control over a national, one-size-fits-all testing system introduced with the “No Child Left Behind” program championed by George W. Bush.

To not know about Auschwitz, whether one is German, American, or any other nationality is a failure on a grand scale because it means that it can be repeated. To not know America’s epic struggle to fulfill its promise of liberty leaves new generations at a disadvantage, as in the case of a fifth of young Germans today, ignorant of their nation’s past.

In today’s world, many worry about the fate of Israel, surrounded by hostile nations and openly threatened by an Iran seeking nuclear weapons. Its independence was declared in 1948, barely three years after the end of World War II. Its first task was to absorb, not only the survivors of the Nazi regime throughout Europe, but those who were forced to flee Arab nations in the wake of the war. Its independence was greeted with the first of several wars against it. The general hostility to Jews that preceded the Holocaust by centuries is a stain on humanity. ...

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