Is it possible that there are some, who don't know the holocaust happened?
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Very possible. I'm sure there are people in Germany who don't know.
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It's highly possible. Some just aren't educated to that degree. Afterall, countries tend to hide their more, for lack of a better word, embarrassing history. Very few people know about the Rwandan Genocide during Clinton's presidency. And in that, hundreds of thousands of people died.
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Children under the age of 7 and white supremacists
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there are people in the world that dont know about the holocausts happening all over the world right now, so surely some dont know about the Nazis
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Yes, it is possible. There are still places in this world where western history isn't widely known. The Amazon for one, the interior of China is another.
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no, but it is possible that there are people that because os misinformation, racism, ignorance, etc..do not beleive it occured.
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Sure. Even people who have graduated high school manage to sleep through a lot of history classes, which are often considered dry and boring (not by me). If their families don't care about something that happened 60+ years ago it isn't likely to come up in family discussions either. And if your friends slept through history class too, and you don't read anything but romance novels, chances are you won't know about the holocaust.
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We are told that some people deny that it happened but if they really believe what they say i would find very difficult to believe was true.
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yeah some people never heard of the holocaust but I think they will learn someday. Have you ever saw freedom writers none of them heard of the holocaust except for one person.
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are you kidding? there are people who don't even know what is REALLY happening in Iraq, let alone what has happened in history. education is a tool and those in power want to control us by controlling education which is really dangerous. unfortunately it is what is happening and has always happened.
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Aye..there are many ignorant of history which is a major factor in why it repeats.
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Of course there is. The world isn't only the western civilization is it? I don't think many chinese knows about it, neither many indians (for example). My bet is that wherever there are jews, people knows about it. Why else would they know about it? How many here can say they know about the cambodian holocaust? The fact that we talk about the holocaust with a big H, and not the Jewish Holocaust, or Nazi Holocaust pretty much proves that point. When we say Holocaust we don't mean the thing the Soviet Union had going on do we? Yes, it's sad, of course it is, but so are every event where people die, especially when they die horrible deaths. We only talk about it when people we, as a society, know experience it. We talk more about the civil deaths of WWII than the civil deaths of the iraqi war. That, if anything, should be cause of concern in my opinion.
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I live in Germany and I can affirm that every person there (apart from some people with severe mental disability, or very young children) has heard about it, at school, in TV and everywhere. But here, there are also: - a few people who negate that it happened, or who say that the reports about it were exagerated or falsified - even after all that happened, too many people who listen to the propaganda of fundamentalistic, intolerant leaders. On the other hand, if you had asked this question in 1944, almost nobody in Germany, except those who were in Camps or that who organized it, had the slightest idea about the barbary of which these monsters were capable. I do not want to excuse those who choosed to close their eyes and their ears, but but I think that we must consider that sometimes this kind of situation can happen to us. And if it does happen, we have a duty to inform ourselves and not always reject, without checking, what the other side say, just because they are the other side. We must also try to get our information from sources outside our cultural environment. Learning foreign languages could be a good idea.
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Yes, I am sure. And I know some people who absolutely believe that it was a conspiracy.
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Of course, there are. Worse is that there are people who know but won't say that they know. Some of these stay at the entrace of Auchwitz and other crematoriums and tell everyone they can that "it never happened." So many probably do not know: children born since 1950's who live in "third world countries" and others born elsewhere in the world whose children and schools have not told or taught them. Adults of those days are nearing death these days and while they may all remember in Europe, Japan and China, I don't believe that all of such adults in the world even at that time took note of it even though there were newspaper stories, movie news, television, speakers, books, and more that told about the horror of the holocaust.
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There are a lot of people that don't know that the holocaust happened. What is sad is that people deny that it happened.
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There are those who deny it even happened, those who live in isolated areas who have no interest in Europe's history, and of course there are children being born every moment that have yet to be taught.
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Some have no idea it occured. Others know it and deny it. Which is worst.
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Yes, I fear. There is a growing movement to either decry the Holocaust completely or minimize it. Some are the white supremacists who simply refuse to believe that it occurred. Some are people who cannot handle the FACTS about what occurred. I am certain that the vast majority of people, at least in America, know the word and concept of "Holocaust", however, they refuse to acknowledge that it was real. I am certain that had Germany been able to hide it, they would have. However, they were literally caught in the act. Japan DID manage to hide their war atrocities and came out smelling like a rose. Very few know of Unit 731, the rape of Nanking, etc. The only reason we know about the Holocaust is that Germany did not have the chance to wipe it from the history books. Edit: I see that I answered this twice. I must have been sleepy.
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Exactly. Unfortunately, the white supremacists are having some noticable effect. Edit... I forgot that I answered this one. The answer I just posted is in much more detail so I am not editing out the content.
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Yes sir it is, take the millions and millions of people in the world that is not that have never steped foot in a school before, like in Aferica, like the ones that spends there childhood at war, surely they don't know that it has happened
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ABSOLUTELY !! and some that think it is an exageration by senile old folks
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I answered this thing THREE TIMES. Please flag this for deletion?
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some people in secluded areas probably don't know, but there are many prominant deniers of the Holocaust. This situation is somewhat parallel to the Armenian Genocide, which is recognized by most developed countries as a Genocide, but there are still some that deny it (UK, United States, Isreal, Turkey)
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My father served in WWII as a tank machanic. He was one of the first to enter one of the "death camps" after it was liberated. He took pictures of bodies piled up with limbs removed. There were women, children and men of all ages. After showing us kids his pictures, he told us never to forget and don't let anyone tell you that it didn't happen. He then threw the pictures in the fireplace. It did happen...it was real...
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