This could explain a lot.
Nearly half of Britons are unaware of Auschwitz, according to a poll.
(And is this by design, we ask?)
LONDON (Reuters) – Nearly half of Britons in a poll say they have never heard of Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in southern Poland that became a symbol of the Holocaust and the attempted genocide of the Jews.
The results of the survey conducted by the BBC were released on Thursday as the broadcaster announced it will show a new series next January to mark the 60th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation.
“We were amazed by the results of our audience research,” said Laurence Rees, a producer on the series, “Auschwitz: The Nazis & the ‘Final Solution.’”
“It’s easy to presume that the horrors of Auschwitz are engrained in the nation’s collective memory, but obviously this is not the case,” Rees said.
The survey found that 45 percent of those surveyed had not heard of Auschwitz. Historians estimate that anywhere from one million to three million people, about 90 percent of them Jews, were killed there.
Among women and people younger than 35, 60 percent had never heard of Auschwitz, despite the recent popularity of films such as “Schindler’s List,” “Life is Beautiful” and “The Pianist,” which depict the atrocities of the Holocaust.
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