One-third of Americans don't believe 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust

Then I believe that one third of Americans are complete idiots. And anyone else who denies the Holocaust happened. At this rate I believe we are doomed to repeat the past. Unfortunately the past has been repeated over and over again throughout history.

Way to go...Public Skool.

You are doing a fantastic job, keep it up.

Or is it video games and yoo toob?

Belief <> Knowledge.

Do the take account of pollers "trolling"?

6 million, 2 million, 100 thousand, 10 million, 10 thousand ...... whatever the exact number is, the theme is horrific.

Another poster mentioned that as time marches on, as more and more Holocaust survivors age and die, and as more and more WWII veterans die, society will forget. This sounds horrible, but society forgot about the Armenian and Assyrian genocides. We don't hear about Bosnia or Rwanda or Sudan in the media much anymore, and those were less than 30 years ago. People are forgetful. And don't care. People stink. We stink.

50% of Americans graduated in the bottom half of their class. So there's that.

Gracia Singh said:

Another poster mentioned that as time marches on, as more and more Holocaust survivors age and die, and as more and more WWII veterans die, society will forget. This sounds horrible, but society forgot about the Armenian and Assyrian genocides. We don't hear about Bosnia or Rwanda or Sudan in the media much anymore, and those were less than 30 years ago. People are forgetful. And don't care. People stink. We stink.

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It's not so much that it is forgotten. It's more about the fact that it doesn't get publicized much. So, many people aren't even aware of it. Then you have people like Cenk Uygar, top guy at "The Young Turks", who had for years, denied it ever occurred. And how many people are aware of the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Chad? And of those who are aware, how many really care?

dogs4thewin said:

To be fair that many Americans are NOT denying it happened they are denying the number of people who died is as high as claimed but not that it did not happen. Personally, I still find that very sad but there us a difference in not believing Jews and others were killed and not believing that six MILLION were killed.

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You’re giving them too much credit.

Humble me Lord said:

Way to go...Public Skool.

You are doing a fantastic job, keep it up.

Or is it video games and yoo toob?

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Well to be fair 31% of adults that weren't millennials were just as poorly informed. I drilled down to find the actual study. Its just a summary not the actual survey. That's a shame because the US citizen may know more than what is implied. For example if the question was "how many were killed in the holocaust" then heck is it so bad that the number was inaccurate by 2 million.

The other issue is that this all occurred 1939-1945 - ie at least 73 years ago. Now with the size of the curriculum in today's schooling, unless you are studying history you may only know what you glean from public arenas such as TV or general discussion. Its about priority and I'm guessing US education places higher priority on mathematics, literacy and the sciences.

This was my great grandfather's era. It was important to him and my grandparents; not so much to my parents and even less to me. In the 80s one third of Rwanda was eradicated in a Genocide. How many do you think died? - Not many will know where Rwanda is, that they had a genocide, or what it was about. That does not make those who don't know stupid or that their education was poor. Its more likely their learning focused on other things.

Polls measure opinion, not truth.

Both my grandfathers fought the Nazis and the Fascists in WWII -- the actual Nazis and Fascists, not some kind of shorthand for "person whose political and/or social views I disagree with." One was a fighter pilot (he's still alive, too...97 years old!), and the other was a field medic. I will never forget.

Sadly, it seems that if you do not have as much of a direct connection to a world event, with the passage of time it gets treated like a factoid over which there can be some doubt (a question of exact numbers, as some have pointed out). Genocide denialists may soothe themselves with lies about how it was really about something else (like Cenk Uygur and other mentally ill Turks and Azeris, who resort to threatening other countries in an attempt to bully them into joining the denial), or it wasn't that bad, etc., but that's all it is: lies so as to not have to face what has actually happened.

dzheremi said:

Both my grandfathers fought the Nazis and the Fascists in WWII -- the actual Nazis and Fascists, not some kind of shorthand for "person whose political and/or social views I disagree with." One was a fighter pilot (he's still alive, too...97 years old!), and the other was a field medic. I will never forget.

Sadly, it seems that if you do not have as much of a direct connection to a world event, with the passage of time it gets treated like a factoid over which there can be some doubt (a question of exact numbers, as some have pointed out). Genocide denialists may soothe themselves with lies about how it was really about something else (like Cenk Uygur and other mentally ill Turks and Azeris, who resort to threatening other countries in an attempt to bully them into joining the denial), or it wasn't that bad, etc., but that's all it is: lies so as to not have to face what has actually happened.

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I think part of our nature doesn't like coming face to face with the true depths of human evil. We like to think we're awesome.

Very true. It applies not just to Turks, Azeris, Kurds (re: the Simele Massacre of 1933), etc. There probably isn't any particular people who haven't at least attempted some sort of genocide or massacre of another people, Americans most definitely included. We're supposed to be better about this sort of thing in the modern world, but we're really not. Whether it's sitting around twiddling our thumbs and arguing over what to call it when a million Rwandans are slaughtered, or simply not calling our own history what it is, there is a powerful psychological pull to somehow reduce or if possible eliminate uncomfortable facts. They remain facts, however.

When there are plenty of people about who believe that the moon landing was a hoax, or that 9/11 was an inside job, or that the Earth is flat - it's hardly a stretch for them to believe that the genocide was made-up or exaggerated.

SummerMadness said:

One-third of Americans don't believe 6 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust

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Sadly people I know could care less. Old news , And some are to stupid to know about it .