Posted on 12/02/2004 2:12:27 PM PST by RPTMS
LONDON (AFP) - Nearly half of Britons have never heard of the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in southern Poland, according to a BBC television poll that was conducted just ahead of the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation.
AFP/File Photo
Forty-five percent of the 4,000 people questioned for the survey by BBC Two said they had never heard of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, the television channel said Thursday.
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is due to broadcast several documentaries on the "Final Solution", the Nazi's plan to obliterate European Jewry, including on Auschwitz, for the 60th anniversary of the concentration camp's liberation on January 27, 2005.
"Our series is not only about the shocking, almost unimaginable pain of those who died, or survived, Auschwitz. It's about how the Nazis came to do what they did," said producer Laurence Rees.
The documentary based on statements from nearly 100 survivors and officials from the camp took three years to make.
The BBC has also produced a musical show at the site of the camp dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust.
Between 1940 and 1945 more than one million men, women and children -- most of them Jews from around 20 European countries -- died in horrific circumstances at Auschwitz, one of the most infamous of World War II concentration camps.
Sad... very sad.
And these are the people who want to tell us how to run our foreign policy.
I can't even stomach what went on at those death camps. How awful, and yet history is repeating itself in that fashion in North Korea and Sudan.
I believe I has seen much of the film from the BBC series. During the liberation of the camps, the combat photographers with the Brit units filmed everything...words truly fail....
I'll bet a higher percent of Americans have never heard of Auschwitz-------half of them couldn't find North America on a blank map!
You're probably right.
Ironic because Aushwitz is much closer to England then America. How does this happen? I wonder if this happens in mainland Europe and in the Muslim world?
A pile of human bones and skulls are left at a Nazi concentration camp in Poland. A BBC television poll found that 45 percent of those questioned have never heard of the Auschwitz concentration camp in southern Poland.
Unbelievable. Makes you wonder what they teach in their schools... a sanitized version of history?
When my son visited Auschwitz about 10 years ago the thing that bothered him the most were the baby shoes---he said it was gut-wrenching.
All the little shoes!!!!!!
Judging from the way the British have embraced the laws of the Nazis, they haven't heard of World War II, either. Don't forget that the inspiration for George Orwell's "1984" was the left-wing British Labour Party intellectuals , the ones he worked with at the BBC during WWII. The society depicted in "1984" is exactly the kind that these people would create if they ever got into power. Now they have and now it is.
I've never heard of these 'Britons.' Who are they?
LOL
Sadly, lot of those Nazis never saw justice. Many fled Europe to either South America, like Argentina, or Middle East, like Syria, and continued on their crimes like terrorism especially in the Middle East.
Taken inside a huge glass case in the Auschwitz Museum. This represents one day's collection at the peak of the gassings, about twenty five thousand pairs.
Buenos Dias Mein Fuhrer!
Sounds like an Argentine Nazis to me.
Sadly in the Muslim world and academia, this type of act is praised. Adolf Eichmann was the one who executed the Holocaust and Muslims called him a martyr and hero for what he did.
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