USA
Fifth of US Gen Z think Hitler had ‘some good ideas’
Shocking number of Americans support some Nazi ideas, according to new polling
October 14, 2024 15:50
Shocking number of Americans support some Nazi ideas, according to new polling
October 14, 2024 15:50One in five Americans aged 18-29 believe that Adolf Hitler had “some good ideas” according to a new poll of 1,000 US voters conducted by the Daily Mail. The poll results also found that 21 per cent of black voters and 19 per cent of Hispanic voters thought the Nazi dictator had some redeeming qualities.
Overall, 77 per cent of respondents across the age spectrum said that Hitler was “evil,” 12 per cent said they were “unsure” and 11 per cent said that he had “some good ideas”.
But younger people were more likely to find something positive to say about Hitler. Of millennials aged 30 – 49, 16 per cent said Hitler had some good ideas, compared to just five per cent of those aged over 65.
Of those aged 65 and older, 88 per cent said Hitler was evil and had no redeeming features, while 86 per cent of those aged 50-64 said the Nazi leader was evil. This dropped to 65 per cent of 30 – 49 year olds and 59 per cent of 18 – 29 year olds.
Just 54 per cent of Hispanic respondents said the Nazi leader was evil.
When the voting intention of respondents was dissected, 14 per cent of current Donald Trump supporters said Hitler had some positive ideas, compared to nine per cent of Kamala Harris voters.
The disturbing results raise questions about how World War Two is taught in US schools and whether young Americans learn the full extent of the Nazis’ organised genocide of six million Jews.
The Daily Mail said the findings were part of a “startling trend with Gen Z being more sympathetic towards some of history's most evil individuals”.
The newspaper pointed to TikTok’s removal of several AI-generated and translated videos of Hitler’s speeches that racked up over one million views.
One account garnered four million views for the videos of 12 Hitler speeches.
The newspaper’s findings follow another survey that discovered one in five young Americans had a positive view of Al Qaeda founder Osama Bin Laden.
The December survey into the perception of the 9/11 mastermind found that three in 10 Generation Z voters thought Bin Laden’s views were a “force for good” after his 2002 “Letter to America” went viral.