As Remembrance Day approaches, one in six children think Auschwitz is a theme park and one in ten think Hitler was a football manager

Adolf Hitler was not the manager of the national German football team. In 1933 he and his Nazi party took power in Germany and started the Second World War by invading Poland in September 1939. He committed suicide as Germany was on the brink of losing the war in 1945.

Auschwitz: is not a theme park. It was a death camp, the remains of which can still be seen in modern day Poland. It is estimated that over a million people, mostly Jews, were killed in gas chambers by the Nazis there.

The “D” in D-Day does not stand for “Dooms”. It does not stand for anything other than signifying the day of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France on 6 June 1944.

Pearl Harbour did not have a nuclear bomb dropped on it. It was the site of a surprise air attack by the Japanese on the American fleet stationed there. The attack brought the Americans into the war in 1941. Nuclear bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, prompting the Japanese to surrender and the war to end.

The Holocaust is not a celebration. It is the name given to the systematic extermination and genocide of the Jewish people of Europe by the Nazis and their collaborators. It is estimated that six million of Europe’s Jews were killed, initially with mass shootings, later with gas chambers.

The SS are not the Secret Seven. SS stands for Schutzstaffel, meaning “Protection Squad”. Initially they served as Hitler’s bodyguards but later came to run the death camps and have their own active military divisions known for their atrocities and fanatical devotion to Nazism and Hitler.

The Blitz was not devoted to cleaning up Europe. Blitz is the German word for Lightening and was the name given to the German air-force’s campaign of bombing British cities.

Remembrance Day is 11 November every year. It marks the end of the First World War which finished on 11 November 1918. The day commemorates soldiers who have died in every conflict since the start of the First World War in 1914. The symbol most commonly associated with the day is the red poppy, not the McDonalds logo. The poppy was one of the few flowers which could grow in abundance in the destroyed landscape of “No-man’s land” in the First World War and its red colour symbolises the blood of those who fell in war.