Harvard soft on pre-war Nazis, historian alleges
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Harvard University was complicit in enhancing the prestige of the Nazi regime in the 1930s despite knowing Jews were being persecuted, a historian claimed Sunday at a Holocaust conference.
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PHILADELPHIA -- It's not as if they don't study history at Harvard. It's just that nobody on the present varsity was alive in 1980, which was the last time the Crimson won a football game in this town.
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Hitlerâs globe is missing. Wolfram Pobanz, a 68-year-old retired cartographer, is positive that itâs not the one in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, with the Russian bullet hole through Germany, and he can prove it.
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The queen, hoping to further reconciliation between Britain and Germany, has urged the two former World War Two foes to learn from history but not be obsessed by the past and to reject national stereotypes.
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VIENNA -- One of the thousands of victims of the Nazi regime's program to kill mentally ill people was a relative of Adolf Hitler, two historians said yesterday.
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Past presidential candidates and their critics have been known to shade the truth for political purposes. But to memory researchers, it doesn't take intentional falsifying to understand the discrepancies in the retelling of Sen. John Kerry's war experiences.
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BRUSSELS, Feb 6 (IPS) - 'The Cold War as ancient history', ran a  headline in the International Herald Tribune Feb. 4, above an  article on how teenagers in the former East Berlin know little  about communism.
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Relatives of one of the most contentious Jewish figures from the Holocaust era are hoping that archives they turned over will clear the name of the man both praised and vilified for bargaining with the Nazis for the lives of Jews.
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Some scholars are questioning a Shiite governmentÂs interest in pre-Islamic history.
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Anne Frank's father tried to arrange U.S. visas for his family before they went into hiding, but his efforts were hampered when Allied and Axis countries tightened immigration policies, according to papers released Wednesday.
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A German historian on Thursday published a set of top-secret maps of Nazi Germany's arms industry that were seized from Hermann Goering, the chief of Adolf Hitler's air force, at the end of World War II.
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The suggestion by Harvard University's president that innate differences might explain why women lag in science and math could hurt efforts to recruit female scholars, a faculty committee said.
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Berlin: Still deeply troubled by the indelible stain of Auschwitz, Germany has endeavoured since World War II to ensure that the crimes of the Nazis are never minimised, historians and experts say.
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A Harvard expert assesses the risks and rewards for the schoolâs first female president.
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The nation's first Muslim congressman said Tuesday that he erred in comparing the Bush administration's response to Sept. 11 to an event that led to Adolf Hitler's consolidation of power in Nazi Germany.
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The Nobel laureate draws fire for his secret Nazi past. But his lies may have helped postwar Germany face some bitter truths
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Growing anti-Semitism in Europe in recent years has put thousands of Holocaust historical sites at risk, according to the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad.