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A Holocaust Studies institute is asking radio talk-show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger to retract her on-air comments yesterday comparing some U.S. day-care centers to child-rearing practices in Nazi Germany.
The pop psychologist, whose syndicated show is broadcast on more than 200 stations, read a letter from a listener who criticized the lack of attention given to children in some American "child development centers" and other day-care facilities.
Schlessinger said, "It sounds like something out of Nazi Germany."
That drew a complaint from the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which asked for a retraction.
"Whatever their flaws, child development centers are not comparable to Nazi Germany, a brutal fascist dictatorship that slaughtered six million Jews," said Wyman Institute director Rafael Medoff said...
--New York Post
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