Alligator Auschwitz?

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Treblinka, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald and Sobibor were the ones I was taught about.

Then again, I was in high school from '78 to '82 so that history was a lot more close and relevant. I actually knew kids whose parents had survived the camps.

Shit was hella real.

Well, now I'm embarrassed. I'm from Europe and I can only name one... Other Europeans who can just list these camps?? Is it common knowledge for non-americans?

A recent study showed over 60% of American adults read below an 8th grade level. So no, it’s not shocking that their children can’t name a concentration camp. This is the intended outcome of gutting education budgets. Keep people ignorant and they’ll believe whatever you tell them. They won’t recognize authoritarianism because they were never taught history in the first place.

Why should they? They have been systematically blindsided in school regarding history. Especially about right-wing crimes, and suppression of minorities.

Young adult Americans.

Yet another sign the American education system is a joke. I know of Treblinka and Auschwitz mainly because a long running substitute teacher was the nephew of someone who died in Auschwitz.

Meaningless detail. Better test young people for knowledge of the holocaust itself, or the fact that the current abysmal situation in Near East is a direct consequence of it.

How many temporary constructions from 80 years ago do you know the name of?