Administrators Lent Harvard's Prestige to Nazis, Historian Says

A paper by a scholar from the University of Oklahoma, delivered at a conference this month, is provoking a heated discussion over whether the nation's oldest institution of higher learning lent its prestige to the Nazis.

The administration of Harvard University welcomed officials of the German government to the university's campus during the 1930s. It also sent representatives to attend festivities at German universities undergoing "Nazification," giving the regime a much-needed aura

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