Wednesday 20 August 2008

Swedish teachers fail Holocaust test

"Swedish school teachers display glaring inadequacies in their knowledge of Holocaust history, according to a study carried out by the country's Living History Forum.
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Seven out of ten teachers failed a Holocaust history test set by the agency.
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The Living History Forum is a Swedish government agency which has been commissioned with the task of promoting issues relating to tolerance, democracy and human rights – with the Holocaust as its point of reference.
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5,081 teachers took part in the Living History Forum's Holocaust questionnaire, but only two teachers answered all the questions correctly.
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Only every 20th teacher was aware, for example, that between 81 and 100 percent of all European Jewish children alive during the Nazi regime were killed in the Holocaust."
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Continue reading here (Source: The Local)
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Photo: Hungarian Jews being led to gas chambers (Auschwitz extermination camp, Poland, May 1944)

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