Germany: Almost 40% of young people do not know about the Holocaust

Almost 40% of German respondents in a major survey by the Jewish Claims Conference, who belong to the age group of 18 to 29, say that they do not know that about six million Jews were murdered during the Second World War as a result of the Nazi method of the Holocaust. 15%, as summarized by the German website tagesschau.de, believe that the victims of the Holocaust were less than two million. 2% of all citizens in Germany also say that the Holocaust never happened. These figures cause serious concern, against the background of the rise of the extreme right in Germany and the recent statements of the head of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Alice Weidel about a “communist Hitler” and about a “socialist” Nazi party. The term “Holocaust” is not widely “known” However, the evidence revealed by this research regarding the familiarity of young adults with the terms Holocaust and Shoa also causes problems. In France, 46% of young people between the ages of 18 and 29 say they have not heard […]
Source: News Beast

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