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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: Ohio State Highway Patrol Cadets Study Holocaust COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- State Highway Patrol cadets participated in sensitivity training based on a study of police in Nazi Germany, joining a small group of law enforcement agencies that used the tool. Last week, 38 cadets sat through a four-hour lecture discussing how the Nazis used police to harass labor leaders, teachers, clergy members, gypsies and the mentally retarded -- and eventually to kill Jews. Patrol Superintendent Paul D. McClellan decided to include the Holocaust education in the cadets' 30 weeks of overall training because he wants to show his cadets how not to perform when they graduate. "It's my job to set the tone for how we deal with our citizens," McClellan said. McClellan says law enforcement ethics has been a particularly relevant topic because of heightened security and privacy questions since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. McClellan said the training didn't use taxpayer money and was funded by a museum grant from Columbus-based Limited Brands. Staff members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. conducted the seminar with the help of the Anti-Defamation League. "It makes us ask better question of ourselves and think about our role as human beings. If one officer stops and thinks, it will be worth it," said Lynn D. Williams, one of the museum's presenters. The FBI, police in D.C. and Maryland and a handful of other agencies have used "Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust" in their training. The cadets, who take an oath of office as law enforcement officers, took note of how German police oaths changed after Hitler's rise to power. Before, police swore loyalty to uphold the constitution. When Hitler was in power, they swore allegiance to the Third Reich and the Fuhrer. "This whole thing is always going to be in the back of my mind," Jacquelyn Layson, of Toledo, said afterwards. Trooper Eric Williams, of Zanesville, took in the seminar out of personal interest. "It reminds me of the old saying, `Those who forget the lessons of history are destined to repeat them,"' said Williams, who studied the Holocaust in college. The White House says President Bush plans to speak at the State Highway Patrol Academy in Columbus next week as part of his push for renewal of the Patriot Act. Bush's appearance Thursday will be his fourth since winning election to a second term.
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I had a thought the other day that when things start to get really bad in this country, they will make it against the law to use the word Holocaust for anything other than what happened to the Jews under Hitler.
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