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...Grynbaum wanted to know what has happened on this subject during the three months following the conference, one would think he would have made a phone call to the conference’s sponsors, or to Prof. Norwood, to ask. Curiously, he did not. Here’s what we would have told...
...fiercely anti-Semitic Ernst F.S. Hanfstaengl, Class of 1909, was not just another colorful rogue, as Grynbaum implies, but the Nazis’ foreign press chief, responsible for spreading the party’s propaganda abroad, and a longtime member of Hitler’s inner circle. He provided important financial support to the Nazi party during the 1920s. Shortly after Hitler assumed power, Hanfstaengl informed American diplomat James McDonald of the Nazis’ determination that the “Jews must be crushed.” Rabbi Joseph Shubow, who confronted Hanfstaengl in Harvard Yard, did not merely...
...astounding that Grynbaum suggests that Harvard alumni support for Hitler in 1934 can be equated with “tasteless stuff that goes on” today. And it is inappropriate for anyone to claim that I just have it in for Harvard. My criticism of Harvard is motivated by my research findings, namely that highly educated Americans capable of exerting influence against barbarism chose at critically important moments to help legitimate the Hitler regime...
...Nazi leaders delivered virulently anti-Semitic speeches. Albert Einstein would not attend the Harvard Tercentenary because Conant’s guest list included Nazis. Conant’s well-known reluctance to offer prominent refugee Jewish scholars faculty positions was motivated by his own anti-Semitism, expressed in correspondences. Grynbaum ignores these cases of Harvard’s indifference to Jewish suffering and the Nazi threat, as well as many others I analyzed at the conference. Students should know about the choices the University made at that time...
Writing less than three months after that conference, Grynbaum asked, “These were serious accusations—so how come we haven’t heard anything about them since? [Professor Stephen] Norwood (who documented the Harvard-Nazi ties) has returned to obscurity...