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...with the war lost, German troops gradually abandoned the prison camps in Eastern Europe. SS chief Heinrich Himmler decreed that even Jews should be treated decently--presumably to erase the evidence of war crimes. Instead, camp guards embarked on the notorious death marches, forcing emaciated, sickly Jewish prisoners to walk barefoot, sometimes through snow, for 15 miles a day or more. "Jewish survivors report with virtual unanimity German cruelties and killings until the very end," Goldhagen writes...
...addition to comparing Scott Singer to Jefferson Davis, the Society has linked Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 to Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard David Duke and Visiting Lecturer George F. Will to SS Reichsfuchrer Heinrich Himmler...
These reckless comparisons promulgated by the Harvard Heritage Society serve only to blunt the full impact of the evil that Himmler and his ilk unleashed upon the world. When one considers that the Society purportedly defends the interests of ethnic, racial, sexual and religious minorities, it is sickeningly ironic that they do so in a manner that mocks the millions, almost exclusively members of one or more of those minority groups, that suffered, bled and died under the systems of slavery and Nazism. To use flippantly the dead as a political device is to commit upon them a wrong...
...constructive Saturday letter, "Heritage Society is Appalling" (letter, Sept. 30, 1995). Singer was angered by our Friday jubilee in Government 1091: Liberalism and Conservatism in American Politics, where we presented the David Duke Award in Faculty Excellence to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield and the Heinrich Himmler Award in Social Vision to George F. Will...
...Friday, September 22 in a mock chant: "Keep Harvard White! Keep Harvard Male! Keep Harvard Straight!" Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 was presented with a "David Duke Award for Teaching Excellence." Visiting Lecturer on Government George F. Will was the recipient of the "Heinrich Himmler Award for Social Vision...