The OTHER Nazi at the University of Colorado

The University of Colorado has morphed into a parody of an academic institution and has become everyone's favorite butt for mockery in recent months, thanks to Ward Churchill. But it turns out that Churchill is not the first fascist moonbat to hold an academic position at CU.

One Ben Kriegh, who died recently, was on the mathematics faculty at CU from 1952 to 1991, and he is still listed with pride by the University as a professor emeritus on its web site.

Kriegh was a leading "light" in the Holocaust Revisionism movement, neonazis denying that the German Nazis ever killed very many Jews intentionally and defending Nazi Germany as the "real victim." The Boulder Daily Camera reports this week that Kriegh claimed Adolf Hitler was unjustly maligned by historians, that England and France "provoked" World War II, and that "world Jewry went on a holy war" against Nazi Germany. He named one of his sons after Nazi general Erwin Rommel. He claimed the Bolshevik revolution was fomented by "Jewish bankers", and never mind the persecution of Jews themselves by the Bolsehviks. In 1982, Ben Kriegh unsuccessfully ran for state treasurer in the Republican primary. The University of Colorado never renounced its ties with Kriegh nor apologized for employing such a quack.

Here is a math lesson the university never learned: a straight line is the shortest distance between Ben Kriegh and Ward Churchill.