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Dumb And Dumber
A survey in Germany - two days before the world remembers the Nazi Holocaust of six million Jews - shows over a fifth of all young Germans do not know the name of Auschwitz or what happened there.
Twenty one percent of people aged between 18 and 30 quizzed about the most infamous extermination camp of them all had not heard of it. And almost half of all those canvassed in the Forsa research institute poll for Stern magazine said they had never visited a concentration camp despite the fact Germany has made all of them on its soil permanent memorials to the dead.
This Friday is the 67th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army in 1945. By the time the Russians got there, some 1.2 million of the six million victims of the Holocaust had been murdered there.
German government officials, camp survivors and Israeli politicians will be among those attending commemorations at the site of the camp built by the Nazis in occupied Poland during WW2.
The Stern survey showed that of people over 30, 95 percent had heard of Auschwitz and the crimes committed there. But less than 70 percent could name the country it lies in.
Berlin, which is concerned about a rising tide of neo-Nazi crime and sentiment in Germany, is dismayed by the survey which underwrites the belief that ignorant youth in particular is vulnerable to far-rioght propaganda that the Holocaust is a myth.
German Herald
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