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Half of adults have not heard of Auschwitz By Tom Leonard, Media Editor (Filed: 03/12/2004) Almost half the adult population has never heard of Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death damp, according to a poll to mark the 60th anniversary of the death camp's liberation. More than one million people died in the camp in Poland during the Second World War, but 45 per cent of the 4,000 people questioned in the survey said they had never heard of it. Among women and the under-35s, the level of ignorance rose to 60 per cent. The poll was commissioned by the BBC ahead of a �3 million BBC2 series, Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution', which includes the testimony of nearly 100 survivors and perpetrators, including several former members of the SS. Laurence Rees, the series producer, said the latter needed considerable persuasion to talk. They expressed little or no regret. "Pretty much none of the former Nazis we interviewed are sorry," he said. "We expected them to say, 'I was only acting under orders', but they didn't. At the time they thought it was the right thing to do, which we found particularly frightening." Rees, who made the critically acclaimed series The Nazis: A Warning From History, said he was "astonished" at the level of public ignorance about what he described as a "byword for horror". He said: "Auschwitz was the site of the biggest mass murder in history yet to these people the word means nothing." The six-part series uses dramatic reconstruction and computer graphics to show viewers how the camp operated but it will focus most on the motivation behind it. The BBC will screen a musical performance from the museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau on the anniversary in January, and a documentary in which a survivor revisits the camp. -- King Daevid MacKenzie, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA How Radio is done. No brag, just fact. http://ultimajock.blogspot.com "Fear and God do not inhabit the same space." DICK GREGORY "In an ugly time as this the true protest is beauty." PHIL OCHS ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $4.98 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Q7_YsB/neXJAA/yQLSAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Apply for Commercial Real Estate loans online and submit your deal to dozens of hungry lenders in just minutes. Loan programs for all types of business and commercial real estate. Apply anytime at http://realestatezoo.com b i s e x u a l =============== a bifem.net publication Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bisexual Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Bisexual/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
