Auschwitz "a type of beer"

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from my other forum....

So I was just browsing one of the news sites that I use to get the news sometimes and I saw this in a little side column and found it disgraceful. It's about a survey conducted in the UK regarding Auschwitz.

From http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25162614-13762,00.html

Auschwitz 'a type of beer'
AAP
March 09, 2009 08:22pm

HUNDREDS of British school children believe Auschwitz is the name of a beer, religious festival or type of bread instead of the infamous Nazi death camp, a survey reveals.

More than 1000 high school students aged between 11 and 16 were asked what they knew about Auschwitz, where about 1.3 million people died during World War II.

Ten per cent said they were unsure, while eight per cent believed Auschwitz was a country bordering Germany, two per cent said it was a beer, another two per cent said a religious festival and one per cent said a type of bread.

Six in 10 students also had no idea about Hitler's Final Solution - a plan to exterminate all Jews - with a fifth saying they thought it was the name of peace talks to end the war.

Ninety seven per cent, however, were able to identify Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler from a photograph.

The London Jewish Cultural Centre, which commissioned the survey to mark the DVD release of WWII drama The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, said the results indicated that thousands of British students lacked an understanding of the Holocaust.

It estimated that among Britain's 4.5 million 11- to 16-year-olds, 90,000 believed Auschwitz was a drink and 45,000 thought it was a type of bread.

I find this totally appalling for a country which fought actively in the war and a westernised country which is supposed to be educated. What do they teach their children in the schools?! :?

Gotta say...considering Britain was the main participant in the war on 'our' side, and what the country went through themselves, let alone the (apparently) high Jewish population over there, and all the movies based on the war...I struggle to comprehend how BRITISH kids could not know this one...boggles the mind.

 

[loyalist]

i thought it was a type of sausage?