I read Jonah Goldberg’s book Liberal Fascism when it came out and posed a review at Amazon. Now comes an amazing account of the relationship between Harvard University, liberal bastion that it is now, and the Nazi regime of Adolph Hitler.
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.
Fascinating.