“The Diary of Anne Frank” has been banned in many school libraries for its “sexual content.”  Yeah, nothing gets people feeling “sexual” like reading “The Diary of Anne Frank.”

What a great way to further highlight the dangers of an oppressive government.

Automaker Henry Ford was the only American mentioned in Hitler’s Mein Kampf.  Hitler admired many of Ford’s theories about auto-making and also some anti-semitic articles that were published under Ford’s name in a weekly newspaper The Dearborn Independent.  In 1924, Hitler even sent a representative to Ford’s house to ask him for a contribution to the Nazi movement.  Ford declined.  Once his anti-semitic views became more widely known, Ford retracted many of his statements.  In 1927, he issued a public apology, and history text books pretty much swept it all under the rug. 

On another note, Henry Ford was also a big proponent of hiring the handicapped (I sincerely hope it wasn’t an act of exploitation).  In 1919, more than 20% of  Ford’s employees had some form of disability.

That’s very respectable.  And also something you don’t really want to hear coming from your car company.

Nazi Germany initiated the first public anti-smoking campaign in modern history.  Hitler smoked in his younger years, but unfortunately gave it up when he got older.  He viewed smoking as “the wrath of the red man against the white man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor.”  Could also be the highly addictive nicotine, but whatever.  Hitler expressed that “so many excellent men have been lost to tobacco poisoning.”  Wow, what a humanitarian.  Inversely, many cigarettes felt that too many good men had been lost to Hitler poisoning.