Nearly two-thirds of US adults unaware 6m Jews killed in the Holocaust – study

From http://www.claimscon.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Millenni... (thanks, zimpenfish!) page 5, the question and responses were:

9. Approximately how many Jews were killed during the Holocaust? Please select from the following list:

    25,000      2%  :
    100,000     3%  :
    1 million   4%  :
    2 million  13%  #:
    6 million  41%  ####
    20 million 10%  #
    Not sure   27%  ##;

The denouncer nationality is completely irrelevant to categorization.

You have non-Jewish victims of persecution by Nazi, for multiple reasons. Quite a lot of them, but these are separate from holocaust.

The linked article focuses on Jews and seems to define Holocaust itself as Jew issue - while trying to make sure reader knows that is not the only atrocity that was going on at the time. I think that the other groups being mentioned too is not to define Holocaust through their murder, but to not make impression it was just that.

The first quote is confusing, because it simultaneously counts in "and millions of others" while also saying "The Germans called this “the final solution to the Jewish question.”". And then turning again to say that it represents totality of victims and supposedly Sho'ah should be word. I have never seen Shoʾah being used in English language. I have seen that in France, but it was in French language.

America is quite close culturally, literally fought in that war, literally fought a lot in that war because Germany was threat to America too. America did not had just few units in WWII, it was major player.

It would not be surprising for history of "us" and politics of "us" be more prominent in western countries then history that happens in different countries. Afaik, in Cambodia, they do talk about their genocide and have museums of it.

Most attention given to the Holocaust nowadays is by Holocaust deniers, outside of the occasional Memorial day war story. It's not as if the news media is covering Holocaust related stories on a loop non-stop instead of these other genocides.

>So there is clearly something wrong, in the whole "let's not allow genocide happen again by remebering holocaust" story.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. Those for whom the Holocaust was in living memory are almost all dead, to their children and grandchildren, the Holocaust is a family story, essentially tribal myth, important and compelling but still only indirectly a part of their reality. For the next generation, the Holocaust is no more real than the Trojan war or scouring of the Shire.

It's impossible not to forget, and it's impossible for most people to care about something that happened almost a century ago. It doesn't help that there are constant, active efforts to undermine and deny the Holocaust alongside the inevitable dilution of the event with the passage of time.

The problem is that genocide was shocking in the 1940s, when people first saw the bodies stacked like cordwood in newsreels, and the emaciated faces of the survivors liberated from the camps which is why the Holocaust in particular has lasting and specific historical impact, but now genocide has become mundane.

Hell, the primary opinion in this thread seems to be that the Holocaust is overrated, and people are arguing about genocides like music hipsters arguing over bands. If that's not evidence of how detached people have become from the Holocaust, then I don't know what would be.