Daniel Greenfield, Frontpage Magazine, 4/24
The Nazi cheers of Sieg Heil didn’t start out in Munich, but in Massachusetts.
The Nazi chant was borrowed from Harvard football cheers and imported to Germany by Ernst “Putzy” Hanfstaengl, a Harvard man in good standing who befriended Hitler and helped build a more respectable brand for the National Socialists.
“Putzy” was one of a number of Ivy League elites who were enchanted by the Third Reich.
Socialism forcefully implemented by great men, whether it was FDR, Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler, was the great obsession of America elites of the era who were convinced that it was the only answer to the chaos of capitalism and the hurly burly of democracy and technology.
Columbia University, whose Hamas occupation fills the front pages of every newspaper in the country while driving Jewish students off campus, has changed little in some ways. A hundred years ago, Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler was laboring to keep Jewish students out while celebrating Mussolini’s fascism. Butler’s admiration for fascism was common among university presidents, leaders of society and even in the FDR administration.
Not just remastered football cheers, but eugenics, another obsession of Ivy League elites, made its way over to Germany where it was implemented in a far deadlier fashion, not only against Jews, but against German disabled and others deemed to be “life unworthy of life” in keeping with the ideology whose adherents included Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.
Peeling back the layers of the dominant ideologies that Ivy Leaguers hold today leads to National Socialist or Communist ideologies. The Ivy League elites who were environmentalists, socialists, globalists and population control advocates a century ago were strongly influenced by these totalitarian ideologies that called for tyranny and mass murder.
They weren’t liberals then and they’re not liberals now.
A century ago they believed that human beings were defined by race and they still believe it now. A century ago they were convinced that mankind would go extinct unless strong leaders clamped down on independent thinking and undertook emergency measures to impose order. And they still believe it now. A century ago they believed that the only way forward was a planned economy, expert rule and the necessary deaths of certain people and groups.
Do they still believe it now?
The complete support for Hamas at Columbia, Yale and other Ivy League schools took some by surprise, but the idea that elite academic institutions ever had their politics defined by reason, liberalism and a respect for the rights of man has no basis in reality. While these universities and many others had some brilliant professors and students, and provided a rich environment of methodical learning at one time, university politics were always shot through with radicalism.
Even early in the twentieth century, the poison Ivy Leagues were filled with loathing for Americans, democracy and free enterprise while being attracted by any radical ideology. The question was only whether the Marxists or the National Socialists would triumph on campus.
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The question of whether the Marxists or the National Socialists would triumph on campus was apparently decided in favor of the Marxists. It was undoubtedly the Marxists who managed to successfully misbrand the National Socialists as “right wing” in order to deflect attention away from their own Left Wing activities by making the Nazis look like the evil ones.
Actually their tactics were essentially the same since they’re both Socialist left wing. Even until today the Nazis were called “right wing” when they were always patently left wing Socialists.
The academics who should have known this estranged themselves from America by siding with Marxism instead of with our own Judeo-Christian rule of law.
It was the height of their own arrogance that drove them to seek domination over all Americans. And they still think that way.
Call it the brotherhood of unbelievers. Brothers like Cain, that is.