A significant proportion of German teen-agers are ignorant about the Holocaust, according to the results of a new poll. Only 29 percent of teen-agers knew that 6 million Jews died during World War II, and some 31 percent of German teen- agers do not know where Auschwitz is. Some 506 teens were surveyed for the poll.
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