Word: pro-nazi
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...behind their outrage does not lack merit. Westerners can claim that we are totally free to print or write anything we wish. That people are offended is assumed to be less important than the right to express oneself in a free society. But am I free to print a pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic article in Germany? Of course not. Ronald Monsen Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
...behind their outrage does not lack merit. Westerners can claim that we are totally free to print or write anything we wish. That people are offended is assumed to be less important than the right to express oneself in a free society. But am I free to print a pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic article in Germany? Of course not. Ronald Monsen Dhahran, Saudi Arabia...
...difficulty in proving whether such novels are implicitly pro-Nazi or anti-Nazi, Ryan admitted, is that under Nazism no explicit literary dissent in Germany was possible. Authors instead could either physically exile themselves or undergo “inner emigration,” a retreat into one’s own artistic world to combat the horrors of the world without. Modern readers must judge the validity of many authors’ post-war claims that their work under Hitler contained subtexts of anti-Nazi dissent, even when the texts themselves suggest otherwise...
This is never an excuse for doing the wrong thing, especially when it’s not even true. Though Harvard was certainly not alone in its stance towards the Nazis, there were other universities that did not share its anti-Semitic and pro-Nazi attitudes. Williams College, for instance, was moving to terminate its relations with German universities. The same year that President Conant had tea with Ernst Hanfstaengl, the Chancellor of New York University called on “teachers, scientists and men of letters” to “resist with all their power?...
...Norwood cites Crimson editorials of the time as evidence of pro-Nazi sentiment on campus...