Word: ernst
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...disclosed most recently by University of Oklahoma Professor Stephen Norwood, and corroborated by contemporary accounts in The Crimson and records of the Harvard Student Union. Harvard sought to accord an honorary position to an alumnus who happened to be a top-ranking Nazi propagandist and close friend of Hitler, Ernst F.S. “Putzi” Hanfstaengl ’09, at his class reunion in 1934, after which he thanked Harvard in writing for its “extremely cordial reception.” Later that year, Nazi naval officers, on a visit to Boston harbor, were treated...
...Though Harvard was certainly not alone in its stance towards the Nazis, there were other universities that did not share its anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi attitudes. Williams College, for instance, was moving to terminate its relations with German universities. The same year that President Conant had tea with Ernst Hanfstaengl, the Chancellor of New York University called on “teachers, scientists and men of letters” to “resist with all their power” the academic policies of the Nazis...
...Ernst F.S. Hanfstaengl ’09, a close friend of Hitler’s and a high-powered press officer in the Nazi party, was invited by a classmate to act as a vice marshal at his 25th reunion. News of Hanfstaengl’s invitation spurred a flurry of protests from Jewish alumni and anti-Nazi student groups. Harvard administrators responded that the decision to offer the invitation was made by the reunion committee and was out of the hands of the University...
...corporate outlook is beginning to brighten. A worldwide survey of 513 business executives by consultant Ernst & Young recently ranked Germany the third most attractive country in which to invest, behind China and the U.S. Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank reported healthy profits in the first three months of 2004, after heavy losses for the same period last year, a sign that German banks can succeed by cutting excess retail staff and pruning bad debt. Media companies like Axel Springer, publisher of Bild and Die Welt, are bouncing back from a crippling advertising drought. Companies are winning important labor concessions. Siemens...
...still have plenty of fervent supporters, like Brandenburg's Education Minister, Reiche. "For 20 years people have known we need a spelling reform," he says. "We need clear rules that are not contradictory. If you reverse the spelling reform now, it will bring chaos across the country." According to Ernst Klett, Germany's biggest publisher of textbooks and dictionaries, going back would cost cash-strapped local governments j250 million for new books with the old spellings. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder caused a predictable outcry when he said he sees no reason to drop the reforms. "The spelling reform...