The University of Chicago was criticized today by the Jewish Nazi Victims Organization of Chicago for providing a forum on February 22 for George Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi party.
The group declared in a resolution that it “deplores” the action of the University officials in allowing use of campus facilities “to again foment the hate and terror which cost the lives of six million of our brethren in the world’s greatest holocaust.” The resolution warned that giving platforms to such hatemongers might “help trigger a catastrophe greater than any atomic war.”
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