An Alabama-based Bible school is under fire for using a quote by Adolf Hitler to promote children's education.
The billboard in Auburn for Life-Savers Ministries shows a group of smiling children and declares "He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future," according to Raw Story.
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Hitler said the phrase in 1935 to encourage young people to join the Hitler Youth.
Under the quote is a Bible verse that reads, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
James Anderegg, founder of LSM, told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer that he was taking down the sign and "certainly never intended to cause confusion."
"Herbert Hoover would have been a far better one to quote when he said, 'Children are our most valuable resource.' We are a children's organization and had honorable intentions and nothing less."
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