Hitler Quote Printed in High School Yearbook

(CBS3.com)  Students from Easton Area High School are talking about more than just Monday's first day of class; they're talking about a quote by Adolf Hitler from the 2010 yearbook.

"It is in fact a quote from Hitler and it was selected from numerous quotes and various sources," Easton Area High School Principal Michael Koch said.

The quote reads: "And in the last analysis, success is what matters."

Koch says printing the quote in the yearbook was a mistake and oversight by the administration. Koch says someone from a local newspaper notified him about the quote earlier this week.

"We will have closer revisions next time to ensure nothing like this happens again," said Koch.

When CBS 3 Eyewitness News asked students and parents how they felt about the error, many said they don't think the quote was posted with malicious intent.

"I think considering the size of the school, mistakes happen and it could bypass people," said parent Linda Leichliter.

"I mean I don't know why they'd put it in there," said 12th grade student Audreana Fennell. "I'm sure they didn't mean it in a bad way.

Easton Area High is a school of about 3,100 students, grades 9th-12th. Koch admits that in 2003, a racial slur made its way into the yearbook, but he says, he wasn't the principal at the time.

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[documemts]

Yeah, it doesn't matter how many people you have to kill to get to your evil goals.

[HolyVoice]

If success is measured by the amount of lives taken, property stolen, and misery extended to a large population, then this quote from Hitler says it all.

Maybe there is nothing malicious in this; a mere oversight by some yearbook editor, but living this level of success is a big mistake.

[Joe3Eagles]

So, if Hitler had said "The grass is green", or, "The Earth revolves around the Sun", would those concepts be stricken from polite conversation? Could the person responsible for putting the quote in the yearbook have been exercising a healthy sense of irony? I think it's pathetic that we seem so hypersensitive to the slightest offense. How long before picking one's nose in public is worthy of a lawsuit?

[krisd999-2009]

Hitler was correct..if you fail, you are wiped out from history. Even your absolutely correct quotes can not be repeated.

[LIBERALS-lie]

IF Che would have said it-then it would be OK

[MrOpinionated]

At least it was a good quote.

[documemts]

Any means justifies any ends?

[RenaeMe1972]

I have to disagree with this comment. To me the quote says no matter what you do, who you hurt, if you're successful, that's all that matters.

The end is NEVER justified by means. Hitler was wrong in damn near everything he said and did.

[us_1776]

The school district should be forced to reprint the yearbook.

This is totally ridiculous to have a quote from the world's biggest mass murderer in a yearbook.

Parents should sue.



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[marcosis78]

No kidding, but its WHAT he says there, not who its from that matters in a yearbook. I can see both sides on this one. I mean, Hitler was pure evil, but the man was intellectually sound....but still evil.

[documemts]

So, what's your "nom de guerre" on the Stormfront website narcosis?

[bobnjersey]

[Koch says printing the quote in the yearbook was a mistake and oversight by the administration. Koch says someone from a local newspaper notified him about the quote earlier this week.

"We will have closer revisions next time to ensure nothing like this happens again," said Koch. ]

why would this be assumed to be a mistake ... and one that needs to be corrected.

hitler was a significant person in contemporary history ... for good or for bad.

is this to say that anyone that isn't necessarily liked should be censored ... and all that they were ... they did ... and they said ... should somehow be filtered from the ether?

[mick7744]

Well gee...

Why didn't they use one of his really inspiring quotes, like...

"The Third Riech will last a thousand years"