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March 6, 2008
Harvard's Love for Fascistic Enemies Goes Way Back
The sympathy of Ivy League educrats for America's fascistic enemies didn't begin on 9/11:
The Harvard University administration during the 1930s, led by President James Conant, ignored numerous opportunities to take a principled stand against the Hitler regime and the antisemitic outrages it perpetrated, and contributed to Nazi Germany's efforts to improve its image in the West. The administration's lack of concern about Nazi antisemitism was shared by many influential Harvard alumni and students. A faculty panel that supervised a mock trial of Hitler in 1934 ruled that Hitler's anti-Jewish actions were "irrelevant" to the debate. Nazi leaders were warmly welcomed to the Harvard campus and invited to prestigious social events, as the Harvard administration strove to build friendly relations with thoroughly Nazified universities in Germany. By doing so, Harvard's administration and many of its student leaders offered important encouragement to the Hitler regime as it intensified its persecution of the Jews and strengthened its armed forces.
If local Nazis had demanded Jew-free swim days, no doubt Harvard sports facilities would have complied.
On a tip from Ian from the EUSSR.
Posted by Van Helsing at March 6, 2008 7:07 AM
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And if Hitler had gone to Columbia University in 1936, he would have been applauded. Although some might have chuckled at his assertion that there were no Jews in Germany.
Posted by: V the K at March 6, 2008 7:26 AM
Also, as Michael Graham notes, Harvard is awash in Saudi "donations." Probably why they are so quick to embrace shari'a in the recreation center. They never would have done it at the request of Roman Catholics.
Posted by: V the K at March 6, 2008 7:41 AM
Enlightened liberals = useful idiots
Posted by: bustoff at March 6, 2008 12:42 PM
Didn't Harvard have a "Jew quota" back in the 1920s and 1930s? A "Jew quota" meant that only a certain number of Jews could be accepted into the university each year.
Posted by: phil at March 6, 2008 1:43 PM
I know that they have NAZIS on their war dead memorial.
Posted by: KHarn at March 6, 2008 2:44 PM
I saw this before on John Ray's article "The American Roots of Fascism".
http://ray-dox.blogspot.com/2006/05/american-roots-of-fascism-american.html
Posted by: Arthur at March 6, 2008 3:28 PM
