Word: hanfstaengl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watched, discussed, and often dismissed lightly as misguided, at worst. Professors, one by one, discounted the importance or durability of Hitler's regime. Articles by Mussolini, appearing in the CRIMSON, received little controversial attention. Only near the end of the year, with the incident of returning reunioner Ernst F.S. Hanfstaengl, did the issue begin to assume immediate importance in the College...
Putzi, as the piano-playing Hanfstaengl was called, had been a supporter of Hitler from before the 1923 putsch and became the Fuehrer's "court jester" until he fled Germany...
...Hanfstaengl's visit to the University at that time was charged with controversy following a CRIMSON editorial entitled "Render Unto Caesar," suggesting that, since "he has risen to distinguished station," it would be appropriate to award him an honorary degree...
Readers' comments on both sides were vitriolic. "You should not have tried to bribe her as you did, Master Fascist," two students proclaimed, while another began, "In spite of the sinister machinations of a number of self-styled groups which continue to slander Ernst Hanfstaengl...
...this time it will be different," Hanfstaengl declares. "I expect to have a swell time, and get a warm welcome. Why not? I'm as anti-Nazi now as they come...