tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post4784423492193945842..comments2024-03-29T03:56:08.315-04:00Comments on johnshaplin: The Third Reich In America's Ivory Towers by Stephen H. Norwoodjohnshaplinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-32200997074879726562010-03-18T16:13:22.578-04:002010-03-18T16:13:22.578-04:00Colleges and Universities were extremely sparing i...Colleges and Universities were extremely sparing in their attempts to find places in their institutions for professors and students forced out of German academia, the big exception being the New School of Social Research in NYC. They did not raise much money for scholarships. It was considered appropriate to balance the rolls of the few professors and students receiving benefits provided with non-jews. Neither did administrators protest the strict rules governing the granting of visas set by the Dept. of Immigrationjohnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-47452054229494886332010-03-18T16:12:57.354-04:002010-03-18T16:12:57.354-04:00The book contains a particularly interesting accou...The book contains a particularly interesting account of the case of Robert Burke, a student expelled from Columbia University for "inappropriately" protesting president Butler's hosting of various Nazi diplomatic 'bigwigs'. The issue remains alive today,especially because of the light shed by Mr. Norwood's book. Here are some links that give brief accounts of the incident and indicate the reasons for the current revival of interest in it.<br /><br />http://www.mail-archive.com/pen-l@sus.csuchico.edu/msg29072.html<br /><br />http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2006-12-burke-expulsion.php<br /><br />http://louisproyect.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/columbia-university-and-evil-dictators/<br /><br />http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2009w11/msg00285.htmjohnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-90057573594841270082009-09-26T22:07:51.878-04:002009-09-26T22:07:51.878-04:00The reasons that college administrators and profes...The reasons that college administrators and professors gave for admiring Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were varied. Many felt that Germany ha been wrongly punished after W.W.I, had suffered grievous economic harm and that Hitler was restoring Germany to its rightful place in Europe. Many were antagonistic to both organized labor and democracy itself. Catholics especially saw the dictators as leading the fight against 'godless communism". Some liked to imagine National Socialism as only a slighly less benign version of the New Deal. But the author makes clear, in examining various documentary sources, that the personal views of many administrators such as Conant and Butler were deeply antisemitic to begin with.<br /><br /><br /><br />"The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower; Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses" by Stephen H. Norwood, Cambridge University Press, 2009<br /><br />Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, author of 'The Encyclopedia of American Jewish History".johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6130830332820181818.post-37282533443823697612009-09-26T22:06:40.175-04:002009-09-26T22:06:40.175-04:00Although none of his obituaries mentioned his Iron...Although none of his obituaries mentioned his Iron Guard past, the character of Rad Grielescu in Saul Bellow's novel Ravelstein is modeled upon Mircea Eliade ( e.g. "in the old country he was a fascist. He needs to live that down. The man was a Hitlerite")<br /><br />Waffen SS general Josef "Sepp" Dietrich was an early follower of Hilter who participated in the 1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch, was appointed head of Hitler's bodyguard in 1931 and directed the SS firing squad that executed six leaders of the Sturmabteilung (SA) at Munich's Stadelheim prison during the Night of the Long Knives. After ordering the massacre of several hundred unarmed American prisoners of war and Belgian civilians during the Battle of the Bulge he became known as the "Butcher of Malmedy". William L. Shirer, who knew Dietrich personally when he was a correspondant in Nazi Germany, decribed him as "one of the most brutal men of the Third Reich". Originally sentanced to life in prison, the War Crimes Modification Board reduced it to twenty-five years in 1951. Ambassador Conant succeeded in getting him released in 1955.<br /><br />This book also covers the run of the infamous, fiercely antisemitic Oberammergau Passion Play throughout the 1930's in Germany and America. Also, the run-in that the German anti-nazis playwright Ernst Toller had with President Klapper of Queens College as late as 1938. Another notorious case was that of Lienard Bergel, a German language professor fired from Rutger's University for anti-nazis sentiments. Also, the case of Dr. Moyer Springer Fleisher, head of Bacteriology Department at the St. Louis University School of Medicine, fired for inviting the Rev. Michael O'Flanagan, one of the few anti-Franco Catholics, to speak on campus.johnshaplinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17618981988062495637noreply@blogger.com