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'No Jews Wanted Here!' posters raise eyebrows at U.

Published: Friday, April 7, 2006 12:00 a.m. MDT
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Holocaust Days of Remembrance posters headlined "No Jews Wanted Here!" have been causing a stir at the University of Utah.

The posters, depicting an Aryan looking man and woman, were designed after a 1938 Nazi propaganda poster, said Leo Leckie, executive assistant to the U. associate vice president for diversity.

There have been meetings to explain the context after the office received a few complaints and some posters were torn down or vandalized.

"People should be offended," Leckie said. "They are meant to get people thinking."

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