[D66] Holocaust study

[A.O.]

(De flessenpost van Adorno blijkt nog niet aangekomen. De VS (en de 
mens) wordt mogelijk steeds dommer (Trump verkiezing). Tel de zegeningen 
van het kapitalisme...)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/04/12/two-thirds-of-millennials-dont-know-what-auschwitz-is-according-to-study-of-fading-holocaust-knowledge/

Two-thirds of American millennials surveyed in a recent poll cannot 
identify what Auschwitz is, according to a study released on Holocaust 
Remembrance Day that found that knowledge of the genocide that killed 6 
million Jews during World War II is not robust among American adults.

Twenty-two percent of millennials in the poll said they haven’t heard of 
the Holocaust or are not sure whether they’ve heard of it — twice the 
percentage of U.S. adults as a whole who said the same.

The study, conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against 
Germany, interviewed 1,350 American adults in February and recruited by 
telephone and an online non-probability sample.

Asked to identify what Auschwitz is, 41 percent of respondents and 66 
percent of millennials could not come up with a correct response 
identifying it as a concentration camp or extermination camp. The U.S. 
Holocaust Memorial Museum says that at least 1.3 million people were 
deported to the camp, run by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland, from 1940 
to 1945, and 1.1 million of them were killed. It was the largest 
concentration camp among many built by the Nazis during their campaign 
to wipe out the Jews and other groups.