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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Then, after purges of Jewish professors and students had swept German universities in 1936, the Harvard administration sent a delegation to participate in the 550th anniversary celebration of the University of Heidelberg, alongside Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler. “Should not one be ready to build a scholarly bridge between two nations?” asked Harvard’s then-President James B. Conant ’14 in his autobiography...

Author: By Michael Gould-wartofsky, | Title: An Apology Seventy Years Late | 11/23/2004 | See Source »

...Judaic studies at the University of Oklahoma, presented evidence yesterday that a high-ranking Nazi officer was offered an honorary position at his 25th Harvard reunion, that crew members of a Nazi naval ship were invited to a reception benefiting Phillips Brooks House and that the University recognized the 550th anniversary of the University of Heidelberg, a German institution purged of Jewish professors. Norwood also cited Crimson editorials as evidence of anti-Semitism within the Harvard student body...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Historian: Harvard Was Tied to Nazis | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

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