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Nearly half of young Americans can’t name a single Holocaust concentration or death camp
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2026
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Considering how fond USA has become of the nazis recently (again), I think you're wrong. It's absolutely important to get history consistently hammered into your skull, or some dipshit is going to abuse the ignorance of the people.
And to add, it's not like it's really that distant history. My grandfather fled the nazis when his brothers were sent to a work camp.
It's still a stretch to consider young Americans not recalling the name of a place antisemitic. The article only briefly mentions at the end about the educational requirements for US schools on teaching about the holocaust and it varies state by state. Certainly not enough info to declare this is the cause of antisemitism.
I'm not sure where you're getting that it's supposedly antisemitic to not know the names. The article talks about the rise of antisemitism being because of a lack of understanding about history, and points out the lack of education about it, by people not even knowing a single concentration camp.