The Simon Wiesenthal denounced India’s B. Jain Publishing Group’s Pegasus line for selling a book for children ti
The cover of the book shows photos of Hitler, along with Gandhi, India Prime Minister Modi, Winston Churchill, former US President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, and Nobel Peace Prize recipientMyanmar leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
The back of the 48- page book declares:
Our world faces many challenges, which need to be dealt with skillfully. Some men and women, through their vision and understanding of these challenges, have the ability to solve anyuntoward situation. The book lays focus on some of these powerful world leaders who have dedicated their lives to the betterment of their countries and the people living in them — who have notjust governed nations during peace times but also during times of crisis.
“Dedicated to the betterment of countries and people? Adolf Hitler? This description would bring tears of joy to the Nazis and their racist neo-Nazi heirs. Adolf Hitler was a visionary—his visionalmost destroyed our planet; started WWII - which left tens of millions dead and mass murdered 6 million Jews during the Nazi Holocaust,” charged Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the SimonWiesenthal Center and who directs the Jewish human rights NGO’s global social action agenda.
“Placing Hitler alongside truly great political and humanitarian leaders is an abomination that is made worse as it targets young people with little or no knowledge of world history and ethics,”Cooper continued.
A member of the Simon Wiesenthal Center bought the book along with the Pegasus edition of Hitler’s notorious "Mein Kampf" at the Krithi International Book Fair in Cochin, ironically the city thatserved as home to Jews in India for hundreds of years.
“The Wiesenthal Center demands that Pegasus Books remove “Great Leaders” from circulation and its online store. Pegasus lists offices in the United Kingdom, UAE, Mexico, Ghana, Nigeria, Mauritiusand Solomon Islands.
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