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A British survey commissioned to promote a World War II drama on DVD has found that hundreds of school children believe that Auschwitz is the name of a fancy beer.
The results mirror an Israeli study showing that most kids think Stella Artois was the French general who sold out to the Germans in 1940.
Most of the respondents to the British survey were, however, able to identify National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler from a photograph. Many claimed they’d seen his face on a bottle of Auschwitz Light.
Some revisionist historians maintain that Auschwitz was merely a kind of beer, marketed under the slogan “A hard earned arbeit needs a big macht frei.”
Other children assumed Auschwitz was a type of bread, a festival, and a tasteless way to promote a DVD release.
The London Jewish Cultural Centre commissioned the survey to mark the DVD release of World War II drama The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, which tells the story of a young Jewish boy forced to flee occupied Denmark disguised as a banana.
