Billboard Hitler quote 'not intended to cause confusion'
| AUBURN, Ala.
The founder of a children's ministry in eastern Alabama says a聽billboard聽featuring a聽quote聽from Adolf聽Hitler聽has been covered and will be removed.
The Ledger-Enquirer of Columbus, Georgia, reports (http://bit.ly/1x05r2w) that the聽billboard聽at the Village Mall in Auburn, Alabama, features five smiling children beneath a聽quote聽from聽Hitler聽in a 1935 speech on the Nazi youth movement: "He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future."
It was displayed on the sign with a Bible verse from Proverbs: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it."
The聽billboard聽was installed Friday and immediately sparked comments on social media. It was covered by midday Tuesday
Lamar Advertising officials say the聽billboard聽was rented by Opelika, Alabama-based Life Savers Ministries.
Live Savers Ministries founder James Anderegg told the newspaper, "We are pulling the聽billboard聽and certainly never intended to cause confusion."
He added that in hindsight, it would have been better to聽quote聽Herbert Hoover who said, 'Children are our most valuable resource.'"
"We are a children's organization and had honorable intentions and nothing less," Anderegg said.
