Opinion Today: There are major American institutions honoring Nazis

Why are we not debating this? 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What he found surprised him. “Readers suggested I look at Germany and the U.S.,” Golinkin wrote me in an email. “I had naïvely assumed these places wouldn’t openly celebrate Nazis. I was wrong.” Harvard, for one, has a professorship and a fellowship named for a man who was convicted at Nuremberg, Stanford has a program named for the same man, and NASA lauds the work of two scientists who were brought to America under a postwar program called Operation Paperclip, which quietly rehabilitated Nazi scientists to leverage their expertise in the Cold War. In his provocative guest essay, Golinkin points to America’s reassessment of historical monuments and figures and suggests we should further expand our reconsideration of the past. Though in recent years [books](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRlfFS_P0TyaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxNC8xMS8wMi9ib29rcy9yZXZpZXcvdGhlLW5hemlzLW5leHQtZG9vci1ieS1lcmljLWxpY2h0YmxhdS5odG1sP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTM5JmVtYz1lZGl0X3R5XzIwMjIxMjE0Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTgwMTUwJm5sPW9waW5pb24tdG9kYXkmcmVnaV9pZD03NzY3NDk1MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTExODIyOSZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9YWE0OTFlZjdmMWQ5NjRlNDk3OWZiNzg0ZTc0ZTAxZDdXA255dEIKY5C_z5lj01jtv1IbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luOTBAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA) have been written on the[role of Nazi scientists](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRlfFS_P0T5aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnByLm9yZy8yMDE0LzAyLzE1LzI3NTg3Nzc1NS90aGUtc2VjcmV0LW9wZXJhdGlvbi10by1icmluZy1uYXppLXNjaWVudGlzdHMtdG8tYW1lcmljYT9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIyMTIxNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD04MDE1MCZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xMTgyMjkmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmOQv8-ZY9NY7b9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) in this country after the war, he argues, there has been no major public debate about what it means when major institutions and communities continue to honor these men. “We may debate the founding fathers,” he wrote me. “But surely Nazi war criminals and individuals who played a key role in manufacturing weapons used to slaughter civilians and American troops shouldn’t be honored.” [Read the full essay here.](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRlfFS_P0TtaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8xMi8xMy9vcGluaW9uL3N0YW5mb3JkLWhhcnZhcmQtbmFzYS1uYXppLXNjaWVudGlzdHMuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIyMTIxNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD04MDE1MCZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xMTgyMjkmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmOQv8-ZY9NY7b9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) [[Article Image] Bettmann/Getty Images](~/AAAAAQA~/RgRlfFS_P0TtaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMi8xMi8xMy9vcGluaW9uL3N0YW5mb3JkLWhhcnZhcmQtbmFzYS1uYXppLXNjaWVudGlzdHMuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0zOSZlbWM9ZWRpdF90eV8yMDIyMTIxNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD04MDE1MCZubD1vcGluaW9uLXRvZGF5JnJlZ2lfaWQ9Nzc2NzQ5NTImc2VnbWVudF9pZD0xMTgyMjkmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWFhNDkxZWY3ZjFkOTY0ZTQ5NzlmYjc4NGU3NGUwMWQ3VwNueXRCCmOQv8-ZY9NY7b9SG3RyaXN0cmFtYmFsZHdpbjkwQGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~) [GUEST ESSAY Why Do Stanford, Harvard and NASA Still Honor a Nazi Past? 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