Oklahoma school apologizes for Hitler yearbook quotation
Source: Associated Press
The Associated Press
Updated 6:14 pm, Monday, May 22, 2017
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) The principal of an Oklahoma high school apologized after its yearbook featured a quotation attributed to Adolf Hitler.
Students at Bishop McGuinness Catholic High School in Oklahoma City discovered the quote when they got the books earlier this month. Graduating seniors chose quotes to pair with their portraits.
A quote listed above Hitler's name says, "If you want to shine like the sun, first you have to burn like it." Some translations of Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf" include similar wording, though the author of the excerpt is disputed.
It appeared in the yearbook directly below a quotation attributed to Anne Frank, the Holocaust diarist who perished in a Nazi death camp.
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