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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (669)	11/30/2004 7:09:48 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224645

Refreshing Headline: Harvard Coddled Nazis 30-Nov-2004 Story from United Press International CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 30 (UPI) -- A U.S. historian is challenging Harvard University about what he says is the prestigious school's history of coddling Nazis. Stephen Norwood of the University of Oklahoma, told a recent Holocaust conference in Boston: "Harvard University helped enhance the prestige of Hitler's regime in the West in the 1930s. This was at a critical period when the Nazis were intensifying the persecution of Jews." Norwood reported finding evidence in Harvard's archives of footsie-playing with Nazi luminaries, including sending a representative to a "Nazified" German university and alumni "goose-stepping" at a reunion, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday. In 1934 Harvard's student newspaper supported an honorary degree for Ernst Hanfstaengl, a Harvard alumnus who had become a close confidant and foreign press secretary of Adolf Hitler, Norwood said. Hanfstaengl was an outspoken anti-Semite. Harvard President Lawrence Summers said in an e-mail, "It has long been recognized that there were deplorable anti-Semitic practices at Harvard in the 1930s, but Professor Norwood's specific allegations appear to be very much open to debate."