Harvard University and the Nazis

This is not the first time that Ivy league academic institutions have been complicit with anti-Semitism. Here is an interesting previous relationship, focusing on Harvard University.

Stephen Harlan Norwood (1951 – 2023) was an American historian who was professor of history at the University of Oklahoma from 1987 to 2023. Norwood received his BA at Tufts University in 1972, MA at Columbia University in 1975, and Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1984.

Norwood’s 2009 book The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses (Cambridge University Press), drew attention even before publication. According to Norwood, “Harvard was involved in active steps that helped legitimate the Nazi regime in the West”, and was “indifferent to the prosecution of German Jews and indeed on numerous occasions assisted the Nazis in their efforts to gain acceptance in the West”, welcoming one of Adolf Hitler’s closest deputies to a reunion, hosting a reception for German naval officials and sending delegates to a celebration at a German university that had expelled Jews, while failing to condemn the policies of Hitler’s regime. Should we be surprised at their current response to the campus support for Hamas, a recognized terrorist group by the US.

Norwood’s most recent book in 2013 was Antisemitism and the American Far Left (Cambridge University Press). This is the first systematic study of the American far-left’s role in both promoting and combating antisemitism. The book covers both the Old Left and New Left, including the latter’s black nationalist allies. It also examines antisemitism in the contemporary far-left, including its relationships with Islamists. (taken from Wikipedia)

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