Word: hitlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
Little Vigor. The testimony caused uneasy stirrings in London. It was pointed out that to have given the Nazis 10,000 trucks to use on the Russian front would have split the Allies just when Hitler was on the brink of collapse. In the face of tight-lipped official silence, the London Times stated that the Jews-for-trucks deal was rejected by Zionists as well as the Allies on the well-founded conviction that the Nazis could not be trusted: "Events soon hardened their suspicions. The extermination of Hungarian Jews was not halted for the two weeks that...
...that died.in the late '30s with Hitler, the swastika, and a Nazi professor shouting: "We do not recognize truth for truth's sake." Many wondered if Heidelberg, which once so heavily influenced scholars and students from Tokyo to Texas, would ever rise again...
Postwar treatment of Germany by the Allies not only crippled the Weimar Republic and laid the basis for Hitler's rise, but also prepared the way for the Nazi-Soviet Pact. The West could not afford to treat two Great Powers as outcasts, Kennan says...
...Kennan is somewhat obscure in ex planing why the intervention continued a year and a half after the end of the war. Similarly, Kennan tries to debunk the Soviet contention that the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 was entirely due to the West's failure to stand up to Hitler at Munich. But one is left wondering whether there would have been such a Pact had the West done just that...