https://freerepublic.com/tag/crimsonbrownshirts/ en-us Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:34:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1279805/posts Why would Harvard have embraced such a man? With everything that was known about the Nazis in 1934 -- their violent anti-Semitism, their book-burning, the concentration camps into which they were herding their enemies -- why would Harvard have treated a Nazi functionary like Hanfstaengl with such courtesy? Why would it let itself be used, in the words of historian Stephen Norwood, "to help cloak the Nazi cause with a layer of legitimacy?" In time, of course, Harvard became staunchly anti-Nazi. (Conant would go on to play a key national defense role during World War II.) But where was its... Boston Globe (aka The National SOCIALIST Review) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1279805/posts#comment Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:34:17 GMT