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First, a disclaimer: We do not think that Norwood’s findings are false, per se. The professor’s paper, entitled “Legitimating Nazism: Harvard University and the Hitler Regime,” contains some damning accusations against Harvard and in particular former University President, James B. Conant ’14. And Norwood is probably on point about many of the anti-Semitic attitudes and actions endorsed by individual Harvard professors, students and alumni during the 1930s. This is, of course, a sad fact of history. But that Norwood singles out Harvard...
According to the Boston Globe, during Sunday’s Holocaust conference, Norwood heavily criticized Harvard for “welcoming a prominent Hitler deputy to his reunion in 1934, for sending a delegate to celebrate the anniversary of the Nazi-controlled University of Heidelberg in 1936, and for failing to help Jewish refugee scholars.” All of this under the tenure of then-president Conant, who Norwood insists was a Nazi-sympathizer; and all of this while knowing full well the plight of the Jews under the Nazi-regime...
...Yasir Arafat was not the first despot to use and praise brutal violence to boost his people’s self-perception; in recent memory, Hitler and Stalin particularly stand out as dictators who complimented promises of renewed national greatness with campaigns of utter human destruction. The difference is that while Europeans have since reassessed these despots, such reassessment seems unlikely among Palestinians. This is especially true so long as even the Harvard-educated among them continues to refer to Arafat affectionately as a “brother” with whom he was “madly in love...
...organized crime” and called terrorists a “nuisance.” Since when have the Mafia flown planes into buildings, or declared war on Christian infidels? And would it have been the sign of a wise leader to call Hitler a “nuisance?...
BUSH IS QUOTED AS SAYING "I'M NOT THE historian. I'm the guy making history." Yes, but what kind of history? Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein were also the guys making history. It is amazing and frightening that the head of the U.S. military is intellectually incapable of perceiving some basic distinctions. Those who want to see what kind of history Bush is making should have a look at his unmistakable cowboy posturing...