Historical precedent

"What Hitler was able to do to a crowd in 2½ hours will never be repeated in 10,000 years... Because of his miraculous throat construction, he was able to create a rhapsody of hysteria." --Ernst Hanfstaengl

Add this excerpt to your information bank... from Ivy League inviting Ahmadinejad has precedent in lectures by Nazis
by Rafael Medoff:

.... Thanks to recent groundbreaking research by professor Stephen Norwood of the University of Oklahoma [Ph.D. Columbia 1984], the shameful details of this Ivy League flirtation with the Nazis is a secret no longer. Perhaps it makes their recent invitations to Iranian officials seem less surprising.

In May 1934, the Harvard administration played host to Nazi Germany’s ambassador to the United States, Hans Luther. He visited Harvard’s Germanic Museum and Widener Library. The following month, Harvard’s president, James Conant, rolled out the red carpet for Hitler’s foreign press chief, Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstangl. A graduate of Harvard’s class of 1909, Hanfstangl came for the June 1934 commencement and his 25th class reunion. He had been a close ally of Hitler’s since the early 1920s, and in his new position was responsible for spreading Nazi propaganda abroad.

Conant received the Nazi official at a tea for the Class of ’09 in his home. The student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, even urged the administration to award Hanfstangl an honorary degree “as a mark of honor appropriate to his high position in the government of a friendly country.”

Later that year, the Harvard administration hosted Germany’s Boston consul general, Baron Kurt von Tippelskirch, at a ceremony honoring Harvard graduates who had died while fighting in the German army in World War I. The consul’s wreath included the infamous Nazi swastika.

Meanwhile, at Columbia, President Nicholas Murray Butler in 1933 invited Nazi ambassador Hans Luther to speak on campus, and also hosted a reception for him. Luther represented “the government of a friendly people,” Butler insisted. He was “entitled to be received” with the “greatest courtesy and respect.” Luther’s speech focused on what he characterized as Hitler’s peaceful intentions.

Three years later, the Columbia administration announced it would send a delegate to Nazi Germany to take part in the 550th anniversary celebration of the University of Heidelberg. Harvard did likewise. This, despite the fact that Heidelberg already had been purged of Jewish faculty members, instituted a Nazi curriculum and hosted a burning of books by Jewish authors.

“Academic relationships have no political implications,” Butler claimed. Many Columbia students disagreed. The student newspaper, The Spectator, denounced Butler’s intention to send the delegate to Heidelberg, and students held a “Mock Heidelberg Festival” on campus, complete with a bonfire and mock book burning. “Butler Diddles While the Books Burn,” their signs proclaimed.

That was followed by a student rally in front of Butler’s mansion. Butler was furious that a leader of the rally, Robert Burke, “delivered a speech in which he referred to the President [Butler] disrespectfully.” As punishment, Burke was permanently expelled from Columbia.

In the late 1930s, Butler would change his position and speak out against the Nazis. Unfortunately, it was too late to undo the damage he already had done....

See also this news release from the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: U.S. Journalism Schools and Publishers Snubbed Refugees From Hitler

.... Antisemitic comments that Prof. Norwood found in the private correspondence of some prominent American university officials suggest that bigotry was at least part of the motive for their positions regarding Hitler and German Jewry. Harvard president Conant urged the DuPont Corporation not to hire the famous German Jewish chemist Max Bergmann, because he was "very definitely of the Jewish type." Yale president James Rowland Angell asked his deans to examine whether Jewish students were engaged in cheating and financial wrongdoing. Johns Hopkins president Isaiah Bowman refused to sign a petition against anti-Jewish discrimination in Polish universities in 1937, and implied the protest was the result of "pressure from Jews in New York."

Looks like I'll have to bookmark the Wyman Institute. I had totally missed this recent story about a neo-Nazi teenage singing duo and Teen People magazine (scroll down... you'll come to it).

Lamb and Lynx Gaede wearing their "Happy Hitler" t-shirts

Comments

[beau]

do them stupid little fuckers actually realise the true amount of sickining things hitler and his followers committed. maybe those stupid little bitches might enjoy being separated from there familly promised an ice cream then gassed to death.

[Jane]

Beau, Those girls probably know that all the lies they've been told about the Nazis came from jew media propaganda. Stop being racists against the Nazis.

[Shmliz]

In response to the first comment (because who comments on a four or six year old article, without first checking current facts?), and just in case someone else sees this, at least there's a happy ending: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/nazi-twins-lynx-and-lamb-gaede-941546