Edited by jhunter1163:
Edited for civility.
I know Auschwitz is a labor camp now, but what I meant was that
I didn't know that before, growing up, when I was still essentially a de facto believer. Most people's knowledge consists of what they learn in high school. Most people don't go out of there way to read much of anything else besides what's assigned to them in school and that's most likely not original wartime reports or anything close to that. It's mostly just that history textbook and whatever your teacher decides to tell you. That back then I was not told that Auschwitz was a labor camp and pretty much anything else at all besides a vivid description of how Jews would all run up to the gas chamber door.
Oh and that Nazis burned Jews alive. Well a teacher didn't tell me that. I don't know where I heard it. All I know is I heard it somewhere and grew up thinking about how Nazis were gruesomely burning Jews alive in ovens. You can only blame the public education system for my ignorance about the Holocaust then. I suppose all that matters is that I know that Jews were being gassed and burned alive in ovens.