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Article: David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies: Scholar RevealsHarvard's Ties to Nazis
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- November 15, 2004
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BOSTON, Nov. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The president of Harvard
University forged friendly relations with senior Nazi officials and
Nazi-controlled universities in the 1930s, urged a major corporation
not to hire a German Jewish refugee scientist and made anti-Semitic
comments in his private correspondence, a prominent scholar has
revealed.
Prof. Stephen H. Norwood presented his research about Harvard's
troubling ties to the Nazis at a conference sponsored by the David S.
Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, at Boston University on
November 14, 2004. The Institute is named after the author of The
Abandonment of the Jews, the definitive study of America's response
to the Holocaust.
Norwood, ...