Half of America is Dumber than Dirt and the Education system is designed to keep them that way, ignorant and compliant worker bees.

What do they think it was?

i know and its unacceptable that they think its all made up they can't see what is happing now and similarities

OMG how could they not know?

Do you blame the parents or the public school system? Both?

Want to make a difference? Run for your school board, become a teacher, get involved in summer education programs at your local library and community groups, etc.

Years ago, Jay Leno had a Jaywalking segment where he asked a bunch of people "who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?", and nobody knew. He then asked "who lives in a pineapple under the sea?", and everybody knew.

The ongoing genocide being committed by Israel against Palestine is something also not well known by Americans who for the most part think that Israel is not only Jewish but a democracy. As a Jew, it is important to me to remember all peoples who have been persecuted. Yes the holocaust should be remembered but so should the Armenians, Palestinians (Nakba), American Indians, Bosnia, Rwanda,.... The list is long.

Half of America would vote for a turtle in the Whitehouse as long as it was rich.

A topic like this is often brushed aside cause many schools don t bother mentioning it. , And thats a problem in and of itself. People in Germany and Poland claim at the time they had no idea it was going on , i don't buy that. On the bigotry and racism stuff . That hate is thought to kids , when growing up ,they arent born with it. Many people probably would like to See another Reich rise, as disturbing as that sounds. Unfortunately the Sane and good people have to rise above the sick people and fight , Darkness rising and the light to Meet it!

A topic like this is often brushed aside cause many schools don t bother mentioning it. , And thats a problem in and of itself. People in Germany and Poland claim at the time they had no idea it was going on , i don't buy that. On the bigotry and racism stuff . That hate is thought to kids , when growing up ,they arent born with it. Many people probably would like to See another Reich rise, as disturbing as that sounds. Unfortunately the Sane and good people have to rise above the sick people and fight , Darkness rising and the light to Meet it!

ameriKKKan schooling.

I teach it every year. And Auschwitz complex contained some 40 camps and sub-camps. If anyone wants fascinating reading about the camps, I'd suggest 'Into That Darkness' by Gitta Sereny.

I'm probably going to get a lot of verbal abuse for this.... but what the heck!!!
The Nazis did ethnic cleansing. No argument.
And it was a horror. But it's just one of countless examples of this very dark side of humanity. Every government I can think of has done it. It's unfortunately, how we as a species are wired. That's not a excuse for this. But it is reality.

That is our education system. In the 90's l was looking at a high school history book in Texas, and they dedicated one not very long paragraph to the Vietnam War. One of the seminal events in our history, completely changing the trust the people had in their government. I could not believe it. So l am not surprised. I wish l didn't have to say that.

It was not just a concentration camp. It was a death factory. No hyperbole. Human beings were transported to Auschwitz for the sole purpose of being killed.

Thousands were regularly transported by train to the giant sprawling complex of Auschwitz (Stammlager) and Auschwitz Birkenau with German industrial precision.

Italian prisoner Primo Levi survived Auschwitz and wrote about it. Photos of inmates taken by Wilhelm Brasse (someone should make a film about him) haunt the viewer. Once seen, they can never be unseen.

And the insane psyche that defines fascism is revealed in 'Playing For Time' starring Vanessa Redgrave.

The suffering and barbarity is undeniable. Auschwitz was hell on earth. But so too were many other camps. The common denominator between them all was the people who ran them. Their personality. Their ideology.

Stanley Milgram's psychological experiments from the 1960s aimed to discover how the Holocaust could have happened if most people are good.

The depressing conclusion he arrived at was that most people are easily controlled by authority. Only a small minority are brave enough to stand up to authority. Contemporary narratives have broken the dynamic down into a battle between Psychopaths, Apaths and Empaths. (A crude, simplistic tool, but still useful.)

Psychopaths, Sociopaths, Narcissists (10%).
Apaths (60%).
Empaths (30%).

The 10% control the 60%.

From above, the faint hint of a curve of a railway track that once linked to the Birkenau camp is still visible on Google maps. It would be foolish to assume the physical decay of these historical sites equals a parallel decay of the ideology.

The ruling class will always prefer fascism over socialism.

I agree it is a shame that we forget. I might add that Jews never mention the 5.3 or 5.4 million other people (not Jewish) who were slaughtered by the Nazis. Or that Stalin slaughtered 20 million Jews in the 1920's. History is about convenience not reality. Without looking it up: how many people were slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge?

The Holocaust is a horrific blight on the history of human kind. The atrocities committed there are unthinkable for me. The mixture of authoritarian rule and sadism is lethal. We should all be aware and be on our guards to fight it whenever it appears. I'm fearful about the current condition of the world at this time. I'll do everything I can do to fight against it. I hope others who can see the danger will do the same.