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Adolf Hitler was a German football coach, say one in 20 children

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11/6/2009 12:58 PM
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Adolf Hitler was a German football coach, say one in 20 children

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One in 20 schoolchildren thought Adolf Hitler was a coach of the German football team, a survey said. And one in six youngsters said they thought Auschwitz was a Second World War theme park while one in 20 said the Holocaust was a celebration at the end of the war.

The survey for a veterans' charity also found one in 10 thought the SS stood for Enid Blyton's Secret Seven, and one in 12 believed the Blitz was a European clean-up operation following the Second World War.

The charity questioned 2,000 children between the ages of nine and 15 about their knowledge of the key people and events of the two wars.

While a quarter admitted they did not think about the soldiers who died in the conflicts, and 40 per cent said they did not know when Remembrance Day was, 70 per cent of all those surveyed said they wanted to learn more about the two wars in school.

Major Jim Panton, chief executive of Erskine, said: ''Some of the answers to this poll have shocked us and it has shown that Erskine, amongst others, has a part to play, not just in caring for veterans but in educating society as a whole.

''As we approach Remembrance Day it is hard to believe that 40 per cent of our children do not know when it is. Schoolchildren are the future of the country and it is important that we help them to learn about our history.''

The charity said it wanted some of the 1,350 veterans it cares for every year to share their experiences of the war with younger generations.

Erskine will work in partnership with Their Past Your Future (TPYF) project, a partnership of the Imperial War Museum, the Museums, Libraries and Archives England, the Northern Ireland Museum Council, the National Library of Wales and the Scottish Museums Council, to help schoolchildren learn more about the conflicts.

Andrew Salmond, a project manager for TPYF in Scotland, said: ''This initiative offers a fantastic opportunity to inform young people about the experiences of war - both at home and abroad.

''Some, we know, will convey wartime loss and suffering, others will speak of daring and inspiration. However, all will be of great educational value, offering an insight to what previous generations have endured in times of conflict.''

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11/6/2009 1:33 PM

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What a bullshit study. Of course many of those children will have no idea about Hitler or any of those related subjects. They haven't attended the grade that those subjects are taught in yet. Remove the results for every child 9-12 and leave only the 13-15 group, and you might have a real study. As it is, this is botched science.

SheldonCooper
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11/6/2009 1:43 PM

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10 years ago he came second in a list of movie baddies, just behind Darth Vader.

mercury2
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11/6/2009 1:52 PM

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I would want to know the heritage of the kids they asked too. Maybe kids of South Asian descent answered differently than kids whose whole heritage is native to Britain? Just saying. These days it is really hard to make generalizations about populations, particularly of young people, since the demographics are so different than they were even 20 years ago.

People make comments about literacy and similar subjects in the USA, but the test results break down very cleanly along racial lines - that's not racism, it's just the truth.

And if they were asking about WWII to a bunch of kids whose parents came from Pakistan or something, then don't you think they should take that into account when they report the findings? I mean, were they? We don't know, but a sensible person would think it would make a difference, wouldn't they?

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