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...Rhine that epitomizes the commercial hubbub of the Wirtschaftswunder. Nonetheless, the lion's share of West Germany's most adventurous artists today find in Düsseldorf just the setting they need. Says Munich's grand old man of art, onetime Neue Pinakotek Director Dr. Eberhard Hanfstaengl, 81: "Düsseldorf is now on the map as one of the world centers where art is being created...
...geological laboratory was getting regular messages from Admiral Byrd in Little America those days, but the focal point of interest in world affairs was Germany rather than Antarctica. Incidents involving Ernst Hanfstaengl '09, the Nazi government's foreign press secretary, brought students closer to the oppressive realities of the times. Hanfstaengl was chosen a class marshal for his 25th reunion, but he himself declined to serve after protest came from many quarters. Near the end of the year he again embarrassed Harvard, by offering a $1000 scholarship for a College student to use at a German university. The Corporation turned...
...Hanfstaengl incident slipped ominously into the past, the Corporation voted to resume Lowell House's Sunday afternoon bell-ringings, and the Debating Council decided to stage a mock trial of Adolph Hitler. A bench of five professors, includling Raphael Demos and Arthur N. Holcombe, heard undergraduates argue pro and con on the German leader and then found him guilty on two out of four charged counts. Charles Feibleman '37 was one of the prosecutors, while two more of his classmates, Thomas H. Quinn '37 and Arthur G. Sullivan '37, supported Chancellor Hitler's defense. Quinn, Sullivan, and company were unable...
Incidents involing Ernst Hanfstaengl, Hitler's foreign press secretary, brought students closer to the oppressive realities of the Thirties. Hanfstaengl was first chosen a class marshal for his 25th reunion, but he himself declined to serve after protest came from many quarters. Near the end of the year he again embarrassed Harvard by offering a student's scholarship to be used at a German university. The Hitler lieutenant made a similar offer two years later, only to be repulsed again. By this time Harvard opinion was solidly behind President Conant...
...watched, discussed, and often dismissed lightly as misguided, at worst. Professors, one by one, discounted the importance or durability of Hitler's regime. Articles by Mussolini, appearing in the CRIMSON, received little controversial attention. Only near the end of the year, with the incident of returning reunioner Ernst F.S. Hanfstaengl, did the issue begin to assume immediate importance in the College...