27th January 2019
Today is international Holocaust Memorial Day. Yet a recent poll found that one in twenty British adults believes it never happened, and 8% say the scale of the genocide has been exaggerated. In France, 20% of those aged 18-34 said they’d never heard of it. In Austria, Hitler’s birthplace, it was 12%. The scale of this ignorance, when there are Holocaust survivors still living and speaking honestly to people of exactly what happened to them, is chilling. Are there schools then who are deliberately not teaching this historical event for presumably ideological or ethnic reasons? There is an important difference between the Holocaust and other mass killings, e.g in Stalin’s Russia. No other genocide actively selected out mainly one group from its own citizens on faith grounds before publically humiliating, starving then murdering them. 3000 years and still antisemitism continues. Enemies come, enemies go but still the totally irrational hatred continues. Time it stopped for good.
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The illusion that this never happened is not only astonishing, but helps to explain the rise of populists, who seem to be in the ascendant. Trump, Orban, and to a certain extent, the politicians here in the UK, all use Jews .... and by extension other ethnic groups to divide society.
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