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Low
Junior College was opened
faces off the
at
"in
Columbia
campus
Auhagen never tried to hide
Preceding a debate on February
order to keep
Hebrew
University."
his sympathies with Nazism.
1936, before the City Club
of Cleveland, he gave press interviews as a Nazi, and in the
debate upheld Hitler as the savior of Germany and world civili
i,
With a
fervor far removed from professorial calm, he
that American newspaper dispatches about the treat
explained
ment of Jews and Catholics in Germany were exaggerated.
zation.
"As
to criticism of
Germany s treatment of
on July 26, 1935,
again in Denver, Colorado
Catholics,"
"that
is
he said
not
truel"
Professor Frederick K. Krueger, of Wittenberg college, with
is rather closely identified in arranging and
whom Auhagen
giving talks about Nazis and totalitarian government, at every
opportunity issues press interviews along the same line. In them
he explains that the anti-Nazi sentiment in the United States
press does not represent the editors, but is dictated by Jews who
"control
public
the press, the motion pictures
and other organs of
opinion."
Because of the high scientific standing of Professor Vladimir
Karapetoff of the Cornell engineering faculty, he is listened to
with more attention and respect than are the more blatant
propagandists for the adoption of fascist tactics and principles.
Shortly after Hitler