The Nazi Skeletons in Wesleyan U.'s Closet

The Nazi Skeletons in Wesleyan U.’s Closet

(Dr. Medoff is the founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and author of more than 20 books about Jewish history and the Holocaust. His book The Road to October 7: Hamas, the Holocaust, and the Eternal War Against the Jews will be published on October 1, 2025, by The Jewish Publication Society / University of Nebraska Press.) In a recent New York Times op-ed, the president of Wesleyan University claimed, that the …

The Nazi Skeletons in Wesleyan U.'s Closet

The president of Wesleyan University claimed, in a recent New York Times op-ed, that the Trump administration and the Republican Party are teeming with secret or aspiring Nazis. But how did the Wesleyan administration relate to the actual Nazis and Nazi supporters on its Connecticut campus in the 1930s? In February 1934, Wesleyan invited […] The post The Nazi Skeletons in Wesleyan U.’s Closet appeared first on The Lid.