Auschwitz being forgotten

[DrLeftover]

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

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.

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/on...-poll.aspx?pageID=238&nID=12307&NewsCatID=351

 

[Fatal Dawn]

That's...pretty bad. And of course what do you tell those who deny the holocaust even happened?

 

[DrLeftover]

You mean like this?

[size=-1]I am very familiar with the Goebbels diaries... There is no explicit reference either implicit in these documents or legible in these documents to liquidation of Jews.

David Irving

Sworn Testimony April 22, 1988 [/size]

Evidently, he never read the diaries he mentions.

[size=-1]The procedure is a pretty barbaric one and not to be described here more definitely. Not much will remain of the Jews. On the whole it can be said that about 60 per cent of them will have to be liquidated whereas only about 40 per cent can be used for forced labor.

Joseph Goebbels diary entry

March 27, 1942 [/size]

More at: http://themediadesk.com/newfiles2/holocaust.htm





And, of course, they have to ignore the ongoing research like this:

Any doubts about the existence of mass graves at the Treblinka death camp in Poland are being laid to rest by the first survey of the site using tools that see below the ground, writes forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16657363





But they do.



And they will.



Just ask Mr. Irving:

[size=-1]It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion.... The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space of one generation -- that in a few years time no one will believe this particular legend anymore. They will say, as I do, that atrocities were committed. Yes, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, but there were no factories of death. All that is a blood libel against the German people.

David Irving

1996[/size]

 

[Evil Eye]

I imagine they're taught these things in primary school, though... Or maybe the first few years of secondary school. I know I was.

Seems to be more of an indicator of their long-term memory.

 

[DrLeftover]

Being presented with the information does not equal being taught, especially if you're not interested in it.

 

[Evil Eye]

If it's a part of the curriculum, it would be tested. That implies teaching doesn't it?

 

[Cranos]

Everyone knows it here too. Strange that the number is so high... Then again the papers never state how reliable the study was.