1 in 5 American Young Adults Think the Holocaust Didn’t Happen: Poll

The entrance to the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free') is pictured in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 25, 2015. Joël Saget /AFP via Getty Images

Over one-fifth of Americans aged 18 to 29 believe the Holocaust is a myth or “has been exaggerated,” a new poll suggests.

According to the YouGov poll, conducted in collaboration with The Economist, 8 percent of that age group “strongly agree” with the claim that systematic killing of Jews across Nazi Germany-controlled Europe did not happen, while 12 percent said they “tend to agree.”