It is interesting to note that Bradley Smith, whose organization undoubtedly paid for the ad that ran in the Collegian, says his group has no political agenda, and the ad is not part of an organizational program. The facts are that Smith is Media Project director for the Institute for Historical Review and the head of what he alleges is the Committee for open Debate on the Holocaust.

From the early 1990s, Smith has submitted ads to campus newspapers denying the Holocaust.

The facts are that no gas chambers were used at Dachau, and has been proven by historians -- people who revere facts, not anti-Semites. The facts are that one can purchase the material Smith uses from catalogs put out by notorious aniti-Semitic Purveyors. The same catalogs incidently, according to Malcolm Stern's Holocaust Denial market Hitler's best speeches of 1933, the marching songs of the Waffen SS, the fraudulent Protoclas of the Elders of Zion and books on eugenics.

It is fact that the American Historical Association recently issued a statement deploring the publicly reported attempts to deny the Holocaust. No serious historian questions that the Holocaust took Place.

Interestingly when Duke University ran Smith's ads in its paper, the history department took out an ad stating they deplored this effort to use the language of "scholarship" to distort and obliterate an event which to our shame did occur.

Similarly, when Georgia's The Red and Black ran the ads, President Charles Knapp, after deferring to the First Amendment right to print it, stated the ad, full of misstatements, is deeply offensive to the victims of the Holocaust and to the University of Georgia community.

It seems to me, and to all sensitive people, that the next time the Collegian runs a hateful ad, it would seek other voices as well the truth should be heard. Hateful ads such as this, with its distortions and half truths, must be met with facts. A few of them are in this letter.