California School District Under Fire for Holocaust-Denial Assignment

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62. Holocaust School Assignment Sheet Included Text Lifted From Holocaust Denial Website

But initial reports on the disputed essay largely overlooked one of the three sources provided to students, extensive text lifted directly from a Holocaust Denial and conspiracy website, biblebelivers.com.au, titled "Is the Holocaust a Hoax?"

"Though six million Jews supposedly died in the gas chambers, not one body has ever been autopsied and found to have died of gas poisoning," the webpage reads. "We have been shown piles of bodies from World War II, but most of these persons died of typhus or starvation or Allied bombings and a great many of those were murdered Germans, not Jews. Roughly the equivalent of ten football fields should be packed full of gassed bodies to present as evidence, yet not one body has ever been discovered."

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The actual written assignment given to students is at the link. Students were required to base their work on "multiple, credible sources" which included the hate site in question.

Not only were students informed that Holocaust denial was a matter of legitimate debate, but that Nazi hate sites were considered 'credible sources' and even further, required kids to read Nazi propaganda and treat it as a credible source.

Those responsible should be blacklisted from public education.