The Guardian is reporting that a children’s book praising Hitler has been pulled by its Indian publisher, Pegasus. The Simon Wiesenthal Center--which launched the original protest--confirmedseparately that the book is no longer being sold
“The children of India deserve to learn the truth ultimate evil that Hitler and his genocidal Nazi ideology represented,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Associate Dean andDirector of Global Social Action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish Human Rights NGO, who had called for the removal of Super Pegasus’ Great Leaders.
“The children of this great nation should be reading The Diary of Anne Frank, not a picture book that lists Hitler as a 'great' leader alongside Gandhi, Mandela, Modi, Churchill, andObama. It is crucial that in our time, dominated by social media, that parents and teachers instruct our children about the stark differences between good and evil and the tragic price humanitypays when it embraces hate,” Rabbi Cooper concluded.
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