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I came across an article about frat boys doing tasteless things. (Which one, right?) So, at the risk of being accused of Godwinning any of a number of ‘national conversations’ we are having today, I offer this brief article in its entirety from 1939…<\/p>\n
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NAZIS TOO SERIOUS STUDENTS ASSERT<\/strong><\/p>\n West Virginia Students Amazed At Row Over \u2018Hitler Party\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n MORGANTOWN, W. VA, Jan. 11\u00a0(AP)<\/strong>\u2014West Virginia University students expressed astonishment today at the international comment raised by a fraternity\u2019s \u201cFuehrer\u201d party here several weeks ago and declared \u201cwe thought \u2018twas funny.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou take things too seriously over there, \u201d the campus daily newspaper, The Daily Athenium said in an open letter addressed to Das Schwarze Korps, official organ of the goose-stepping black-uniformed Nazi Elite guard.<\/p>\n IMITATED HITLER<\/p>\n \u201cWhat,\u201d it asked, \u201cis the world coming to when 80,000,000 inhabitants of a great nation become agitated over the pranks of college students?\u201d<\/p>\n Male students attending the party had imitated the appearance of Adolf Hitler, and when the German newspaper caustically criticized the affair as pictured by \u201cLife\u201d magazine, four students facetiously cabled they were severing \u201cdiplomatic relations.\u201d<\/p>\n Das Schwaze Korps replying described the students as \u201csprigs of war-profiteering Babbits\u201d and said this could not be expected to \u201cmake less frivolous play with \u2018diplomatic relations\u2019 between two nations than would Jews and free Masons around President Roosevelt.\u201d<\/p>\n QUOTES GOLDSMITH<\/p>\n The Athenum\u2019s letter asserted the \u201cwhole episode, including your reply, will cause only a passing ripple of interest here,\u201d and recalled Oliver Goldsmith once said \u201clittle things are important to little men.\u201d<\/p>\n Editors said the letter would be mailed to Germany.<\/p>\n _____________<\/p>\n In hindsight, of course, we countenance any ridiculing of Hitler, and discount any protests from Nazi Germany. But in early 1939, when Roosevelt was committing to keep us out of any European conflict, there were arguably a number of sensitivities relating to our relationship with an ascendant Germany, not to mention a significant American minority.<\/p>\n It would have been ironic if those kids were somehow punished for\u00a0offending those sensitivities soon before having to face death in\u00a0defense of America’s most fundamental ideals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I came across an article about frat boys doing tasteless things. (Which one, right?) So, at the risk of being accused of Godwinning any of a number of ‘national conversations’ we are having today, I offer this brief article in its entirety from 1939… _____________ NAZIS TOO SERIOUS STUDENTS ASSERT West Virginia Students Amazed At […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3631,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/3631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}