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But back at Yale, where Rigg returned to start researching the Jews in Hitler’s
army, his professors were underwhelmed.

“They said, basically, ‘Hey, we studied this for 20 or 30 years, and we’ve never
heard about this,” says Rigg.

There you go...the Ivy League, home of inquiring minds.
At least among some of the students.

I saw the episode; had read a short article about the fellow's research on freerepublic
maybe two years ago.

Gotta' salute the grit of this fellow. After doing his hitch in the Marines, goes to
Yale and follows his gut on research that his faculty advisors disdained.

I hope he's the next Stephen Ambrose (but a little more cautious at citations!). Having already
gotten a book in print involving wartime, he'll probably get the cold shoulder
from the academics, like Ambrose.
Hope he finds an academic nest at The Naval Academy or the like and starts writing
more best seller books and movie/documentary script.