Only 95% of UK adults think the Holocaust occurred

I think we can live with 95%.

I also agree with some of the above posts. The Holocaust gets huge recognition despite contributing a small portion of the civilian WW2 deaths, and remembrance is almost entirely focused on Jews despite them being about half of the Holocaust victims.

Yes, the Holocaust was horrible. It was the intentional attempted eradication of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies and political prisoners. But the Soviets murdered, starved to death and committed genocide against millions more people in the name of their regime than Hitler ever did. But for some reason it's OK to feature a hammer and sickle on things but not a Swastika. I mean, the Soviets were also our enemies for decades. It makes absolutely no sense to me.

Their priority was to exterminate 'inferior races'. Jews were just one of those races.

The Holocaust of Jews is remembered so much because it was an attempt to exterminate a whole group of people, based solely on the religion that they happened to be born into.

That is true, however Jews were sought after. Were they not segregated in Ghettos? Poles could still roam around Warsaw, if they were not Jewish or hiding Jews. They were still all horribly treated, and Poles were definitely portrayed as inferior aliens (even tried to be framed for the invasion of Poland).


Also stupid question, but when you compare the numbers between slavs and Jews killed, does that mean none of the slavs held the Jewish faith?

Yes and how much harm did those beliefs cause? Religious beliefs have been responsible for untold harm over the generations.Even the holocaust actually.Afterall it was the Jews who crucified the messiah.

Holocaust denial is a problem because if you don't learn from the mistakes of the past then you are doomed to repeat it.Do you think it started with the gas chambers? It didnt.It starts with words and demonization of the "other".

We don’t learn history simply because of its fascinating nature, we learn it to make sure that the same mistakes don’t happen again. If a significant proportion of the population start denying that certain events even exist, this starts to become dangerous. I’m all for freedom of belief but if someone starts stating that the sky is polka dotted purple in the face of evidence saying otherwise, then that person will be regarded as an idiot, like others of similar intelligence.

Also it’s just plain moronic and disrespectful to the survivors and family members of survivors of the holocaust who must be tearing their hair out at the sheer idiocy.

Even if I'm confusing the two, your point doesn't stand at all.

Your argument is literally "Jews matter more because they were targeted". The Poles were targeted. The entire Slavic race was targeted and they even have written plans for the mass murder of most Slavic peoples.

9-11M Slavs were killed. At the very least that's 50% more Slavs killed than Jews.
Generalplan Ost has had several mentions already... Do you know what the plan called for?
The elimination of:
50-60% of Russians (Slavic)
almost 50% of Estonians
50% of Latvians
50% of Czechs (Slavic)
65% of Ukrainians (Slavic)
75% of Belarusians (Slavic)
80-85% of Poles (Slavic)
85% of Lithuanians
100% of Latgalians

I'll tell you exactly why we focus on the Jews and hear nothing of the victimised Slavs. Propaganda. 6.3M - 7.5M of Slavics killed were Soviets. Why would the West be sympathetic to the loss of people from the evil communist countries? I guarantee that if relations between the Soviets and the West had been much better, we'd be hearing about the Slavs just as much, if not more, than the Jews.

Oh but please, continue to tell me how only the Jews were targeted...


Their priority was to exterminate 'inferior races'. Jews were just one of those races.

Not with the same intensity. The Nazis had a hierarchy of races, in which the Jews were at the bottom, not the Slavs.

Haven't you seen my post above? More Slavs were killed than the Jews, but they were many times more numerous than the Jews. You have to look at the percentage of the population killed. 55% of the Jews living in the areas controlled by the Nazis and their allies died, against about 10% of the Slavs, and this figure includes combatants, while the Jews had no army.

Moreover, several Slavic countries were allied to Germany: Slovakia, Croatia and Bulgaria, so "The entire Slavic race" was NOT targeted.

We do not feel too sympathetic to the loss of Soviet lives, because the Soviets themselves committed a number of atrocities during WW2, including several massacres on their fellow Slavs, and the deportations of many peoples to Siberia (not even mentioning the Ukrainian genocide).

And 1 in 12 thinks it's been exaggerated. So says a survey by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust based on 2,000 UK adults. Does this surprise you? And should everyone be aware of it? What are the consequences if more people aren't aware of what happened?

I do think the Holocaust occurred, and I don't think it's been exaggerated to say 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis. However, I do think other victims of the Holocaust have been ignored, for example Poles and homosexuals, and I'm rather annoyed at the BBC for leaving that out of their article. I understand that the number of Jews murdered was larger than that of other groups, but to ignore millions of other murder victims because 'not enough' were killed is wrong. On the plus side, they have at least mentioned Rwanda and Cambodia, though I wouldn't expect those to be known as well in this country which fought against the Nazi regime.

Personally, I am not worried that 5% of adults don't think the Holocaust occurred. If they also happened to think that Jews were inherently bad or inferior, then we have a problem, but just because someone isn't aware of (or denies) Pol Pot doesn't mean they're a risk to some random Cambodian walking around.