Today, the British newspaper Mail Online is reporting this startling news:
ONE-FIFTH of young Germans have never heard of Auschwitz, survey reveals
Does this mean one-fifth of young “ethnic Germans” (Volksdeutsche) have never heard of Auschwitz, or does it mean one-fifth of all young citizens of Germany have never heard of Auschwitz?
It is hard for me to believe that anyone in Germany has never heard of Auschwitz — unless they are recent immigrants from Africa or the Middle East. Did the people asking the survey question pronounce the word Auschwitz correctly? If the surveyers used the British or the American pronunciation of the word, the ethnic Germans might not have known what they were talking about.
According to the article in the Mail Online, “Twenty one per cent of people aged between 18 and 30 quizzed about the most notorious Nazi extermination camp had not heard of it, the survey revealed.” How was the question posed: Did the survey people ask “What was the most notorious Nazi extermination camp?” (more…)
