Harvard cozied up to the Nazis in the 1930’s, according to new research. University President James Conant hosted Nazi officials in 1934 and 1935 and cultivated friendly relations with German universities after their Jewish students had been kicked out, University of Oklahoma historian Stephen Norwood said at a conference in Boston on Sunday.
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