It happened not so long ago.

A survey held recently by Austrian News Publications and a Survey Institute arrived at a sad result:
Only some 48% of Austrian Youth are aware of the horrors of the Holocaust. And many of them have only a vague idea of what really happened between 1933 and 1945.
The crimes committed during this time by the "National Socialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei"
the NSDAP or, for short, the Nazi Party, in Germany, Austria and throughout Europe are so staggering, when rationally considered, that no even vaguely similar offences against humanity come to mind.

The numbers, listed below, are of Civilian Population only  and do not include victims, civilian or military, of war actions.
These are people murdered in various ways during the approximately 12 years of Nazi Rule in Europe:
Jews                                                                                5,900,000 
Sowiet Civilians (Not Jewish)                                        5,700,000
Sowiet Prisonors of War                                                 3,000,000
Polish Civilians ( Non Jewish)                                       1,800,000
Serbian Civilians ( Non Jewish)                                        312,000
Institutionalized disabled Persons                                     250,000
Gypsis, Romas                                                                   220,000
Jehova's Witnesses                                                   ______  2,000
Total                                                                              17,184,000
                                                                                                          

That is: Seventeen Millions and onehundredeightyfour thousand human beings.

Over 52% of Austria's Youth have no, or little idea about this universal slaughter.
Shame on our Generation...  Shame on our educational system... shame on our teachers.

Bertstravels
has written about this before, but it  bears repeating.