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Ad In Harvard Student Paper Crimson Causes Outrage

by Annina Bergman | September 9, 2009 at 03:54 pm

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The Harvard Crimson has ran an ad which questions the existence of the Holocaust. The ad was submitted to the Crimson by Bradley Smith, who founded the Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust. It was supposed to be printed in every edition of the Crimson published this week, but was pulled from the paper after one appearance on Tuesday, due to public outrage.

The ad contained a message from Bradley Smith who wondered why Dwight D. Eisenhower never mentioned the Holocaust in his book, Crusade in Europe: It also read: "can you provide, with proof, the name of one person killed in a gas chamber at Auschwitz?". The Crimson received several letters from relatives of Holocaust survivors, angry with the paper for allowing the ad to run.

The Crimson's President, Maxwell Child, has apologized for running the ad, explaining that it was accidentally published due to miscommunication.

“Unfortunately, with three weeks of vacation between submission and publication, that decision fell through the cracks," Child writes. “While running the ad was not our intent, we accept responsibility for our failure to carry out the planned cancellation."

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at 10:41 on September 10th, 2009

How long before the Holocaust is sanitized as too graphic in our schools. Every time I see a photo of dead jews, it bothers me so much. It keeps me centered that a man can do evil things to others in the name of perfection of the species. Eugenics needs to be carefully watched