[CNN] Evan Buxbaum - On Tuesday, the Harvard Crimson, in what it said was an error, ran an advertisement questioning the reality of the Holocaust. The ad, paid for by Holocaust denier Bradley R. Smith and his Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust, raises questions about Gen. Dwight Eisenhower's account of World War II and the existence of Nazi gas chambers. Robert Trestan, civil rights counsel for the Anti-Defamation League of New England, said Smith's organization had placed ads in approximately 15 college papers around the country so far this year. "Would an ad that questions whether the world was flat or that slavery never happened in America have fallen through the cracks?" he asked.
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