A resolution condemning anti-Semitism, proposed by a former member of the Hitler Youth Movement, was adopted here today at a workshop session on racial discrimination at the World Assembly of Youth held at Cornell University.
The resolution was presented by Erich Posch, a 21-year-old delegate from Austria who grew up thoroughly indoctrinated with the Nazi philosophy but realized that Hitler’s teachings were lies soon after the fall of the Nazi regime. He suggested that a guilt complex probably influenced his demand for discussion of anti-Semitism. The resolution reads:
“The youth organizations which are affiliated with the World Assembly of Youth not only protest against and condemn all kinds of discrimination between individuals, but urge, in full accordance with the articles of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights that the World Assembly of Youth members combat the practice of discrimination of whatever kind–social, economic, political, cultural–directed against the Jews, and that they lead and support the struggle against anti-Semitism in every possible method.”
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