One-third of Americans think “substantially less” than 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, according to a new survey that highlights a worrying lack of basic knowledge about the World War II-era genocide.

The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, or Claims Conference, released the findings of its survey to coincide with Holocaust Remembrance Day. They show a notable lack of understanding among Americans, especially millennials, the group said.

The Claims Conference said there are “critical gaps both in awareness of basic facts as well as detailed knowledge of the Holocaust” in American society, stressing that U.S. schools must provide more comprehensive education on the crimes.

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The survey shows that 70 percent of Americans believe people care less about the Holocaust than they used to. A majority, 58 percent, said they believe something like the Holocaust could happen again.

A uniform of an Auschwitz survivor is displayed on December 9, 2004, at the Jewish Museum in London. A recent survey found that 66 percent of millennials do not know what Auschwitz was. Ian Waldie/Getty Images

Just under a third (31 percent) of those surveyed do not believe that 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust and think the real death toll is at least 2 million lower. This was true for 41 percent of millennials.

Adolf Hitler's fascist Nazi regime killed approximately 6 million Jews before and during World War II. The Nazis also murdered millions of Eastern European civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, disabled people, homosexuals and political prisoners. Estimates of the total death toll reach as high at 15 million to 20 million people.

Beyond your personal opinions, independent of the State of Israel, are there non-Jewish sources to verify the Holocaust? Is there any validity to justify an exaggeration to the number people who died during the Holocaust? Who or what's behind the Americans not believing 6 Million Jews died during the Holocaust? Could it be that many Americans feel the other people-group are not compared or reparations are sought? e.g. American Indians, Slaves (slave trade), Vietnamese, Japanese, etc. Mainly, what about the world's atrocities, who remembers these people? See below...

1 1914–1918: World War I
2 1923–1932: Pacification of Libya
3 1935–1941: Second Italo-Abyssinian War
4 1936–1939: Spanish Civil War
5 1939–1945: World War II
5.1 Axis powers
5.1.1 Crimes perpetrated by Germany
5.1.2 Crimes perpetrated by Hungary
5.1.3 Crimes perpetrated by Italy
5.1.4 Crimes perpetrated by the (first) Slovak Republic (1939–1945)
5.1.5 Crimes perpetrated by Japan
5.1.6 Crimes perpetrated by Romania
5.1.7 Crimes perpetrated by the Chetniks
5.1.8 Crimes perpetrated by the Ustashas
5.1.9 Crimes perpetrated by the Ukrainians
5.2 Allied powers
5.2.1 Crimes perpetrated by the Soviet Union
5.2.2 Crimes perpetrated by the United Kingdom
5.2.3 Crimes perpetrated by the United States
5.2.4 Crimes perpetrated by Canada
5.2.5 Crimes perpetrated by the Yugoslav Partisans
6 1946–1954: Indochina War
7 1947–1948: Malagasy Uprising
8 1948 Arab–Israeli War
9 1945–1949: Indonesian War of Independence
10 1948–1960: Malayan Emergency
11 1950–1953: Korean War
11.1 United States perpetrated crimes
11.2 North Korean and Chinese perpetrated crimes
11.3 South Korean perpetrated crimes
12 1952–1960: Mau Mau uprising
13 1954–1962: Algerian War
14 1955–1975: Vietnam War
14.1 United States perpetrated crimes
14.2 South Korean perpetrated crimes
14.3 North Vietnamese and Vietcong perpetrated crimes
15 Late 1960s–1998: The Troubles
16 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
17 Bihari and pro Pakistanis massacre in Bangladesh
18 1970–1975: Cambodian civil war
19 Indonesian Invasion of East Timor
20 1975–1990: Lebanese Civil War
21 1978–present: Civil war in Afghanistan
22 1980–1988: Iran–Iraq War
23 1985–present: Uganda
24 1991–1999: Yugoslav wars
24.1 1991–1995: Croatian War of Independence
24.2 1992–1995: Bosnian War
24.3 1998–1999: Kosovo War
25 1990–2000: Liberia / Sierra Leone
26 1990: Invasion of Kuwait
27 1991–2000/2002: Algerian Civil War
28 1994–1996/1999–2009: Russia-Chechnya Wars
29 1998–2006: Second Congo War
30 2003–2011: Iraq War
31 2006 Lebanon War
32 2003–2009/2010: Darfur conflict; 2005–2010: Civil war in Chad
33 2008–2009 Gaza War
34 2009 Sri Lankan Civil War
35 2011–present: Syrian civil war

Is it a lack of knowledge or the "miseducation" of the "American population why One-Third of Americans Don't Believe 6 Million Jews Were Murdered During the Holocaust?" What say ye? CM