Word: hitleritis
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...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 express “concerns” over Jews’ treatment...
...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...
...focused at the Wyman Institute’s conference. The press at the time linked the Hanfstaengl episode with the administration’s permitting the Nazi consul to place a wreath bearing a swastika in the University chapel, calling this Harvard’s recognition of the Hitler regime. Moreover, although British universities boycotted the “Nazified” University of Heidelberg’s anniversary celebration in 1936, Harvard chose to participate in this Hitler propaganda festival, at which top Nazi leaders delivered virulently anti-Semitic speeches. Albert Einstein would not attend the Harvard Tercentenary because...
Michael Grynbaum’s February 10 article in The Crimson, which has just now come to my attention, focused on Harvard’s relationship with the Hitler regime, a topic which was the centerpiece of a conference at Boston University last November, sponsored by the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies...
...appeared on a number of radio talk shows to discuss the issue. The combined reading and listening audiences that were made aware of Harvard’s relationship with the Nazis totalled in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Stimulating this kind of public discussion of the Harvard-Hitler issue was a major goal of our conference, as it is of most such conferences...