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Michael Grynbaum’s ill-informed article (“Nazi In Our Midst,” Magazine, Feb. 10), which misrepresents my keynote address at the recent David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies Conference at Boston University, and attempts to downplay Harvard’s role in enhancing Nazi Germany’s image in the West, has just come to my attention. The Crimson never notified me of its publication...
Grynbaum grossly distorts my argument when he states that I claimed the Harvard administration “voiced support for the Third Reich.” While many alumni and student leaders were anti-Semitic and sympathized with some Nazi objectives, my focus was on how Harvard’s actions helped legitimize the Nazi government in the United States...
...Hanfstaengl, Class of 1909, was not just 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?...
...Vladimir Putin said last week, "the triumph of civilization over fascism." In Russia, May 9 marks the 60th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany - an event that in Western Europe is marked the day before - and Russia is going all out to celebrate. Leaders, from U.S. President George W. Bush to Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, are expected to come to Moscow for a military parade in Red Square, flyovers by World War II-era fighter planes and, organizers promise, a "stupendous" fireworks display. But for security reasons, ordinary Muscovites are not invited; instead, they've been encouraged...
...police officers standing guard to ensure that a human being died a slow death while her family watched in horror and was powerless to do anything to help. Was this the U.S. in 2005 or a Nazi concentration camp in the 1940s? Alan W. Garett Corpus Christi, Texas...