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Crimson pride may be in ample supply these days. But in the 1930s, Harvard did not have much to be proud of. At a time when it could have been a voice of moral and intellectual responsibility in America, our university played a role in legitimizing the Nazi regime. Today, in the face of growing evidence to this effect, the administration still refuses to apologize for or even acknowledge its predecessors’ complicity. This is not only an affront to the Jewish community. The administration’s silence shames...
...historical record is clear, as disclosed most recently by University of Oklahoma Professor Stephen Norwood, and corroborated by contemporary accounts in The Crimson and records of the Harvard Student Union. Harvard sought to accord an honorary position to an alumnus who happened to be a top-ranking Nazi propagandist and close friend of Hitler, Ernst F.S. “Putzi” Hanfstaengl ’09, at his class reunion in 1934, after which he thanked Harvard in writing for its “extremely cordial reception.” Later that year, Nazi naval officers, on a visit...
Harvard made headlines this week after a University of Oklahoma historian published a paper severely scrutinizing the University’s association with Hitler’s Nazi regime. Full of anecdotes suggesting that the University was complicit in forming “deliberate ties” with the Nazis, Professor Stephen H. Norwood’s presentation at Boston University provoked curious outrage, and now some are calling for Harvard to issue a public apology for old anti-Semitism...
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...
Harvard officials have responded to Norwood’s claims with a focus on Conant’s autobiography, published in 1970, in which he explicitly states his aversion to Nazism and asserts that he later turned down donations from Nazi philanthropists. Norwood, however, points out that Conant’s words had the benefit of 30 years’ worth of hindsight and that the events that took place under his tenure demonstrate his underlying anti-Semitism. And he may be right...