Quarter of young Dutch believe Holocaust is a myth, according to new poll

A new poll has found that almost one in four Dutch people born after 1980 believe that the Holocaust is “a myth” or that the number of Jewish people murdered by the Nazis is “greatly exaggerated”.

29 percent of Dutch people believed that two million or fewer Jews were killed, with 37 percent of millennials and Generation Z affirming that view. A majority of respondents also did not know that six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.

Twelve percent of those polled said that the crimes of Nazi Germany were untrue or exaggerated, rising to 23% among young Dutch.

Almost a third of Dutch millennials also do not know that Anne Frank died in a concentration camp, despite her renowned diary documenting her life in hiding in The Netherlands.

The survey, conducted by the US-based Claims Conference, polled 2,000 Dutch people last December. Similar surveys were previously conducted in the United States, Britain, France, Austria and Canada, but the results for the Dutch polling was more troubling than the other surveys

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