Harvard Helped Hitler. Here's How......

Rex Curry

Harvard helped Hitler. Harvard graduate Ernst Hanfstaengl created the infamous "Heil Hitler" chant, he spread America's straight-arm salute in Germany, and he taught the

German National Socialist leader to use swastika-style symbolism in signatures. http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html

Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl (1887 - 1975) was the only person known to have worked directly for both Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler. Both of Hanfstaengl's employers promoted national socialism, the former in America, and the latter in Germany. Both enlarged government massively.

Hanfstaengl was born in Germany, spent his early years in Germany, and then moved to the United States and attended Harvard University, graduating in 1909. While at Harvard he participated in patriotic events, played the piano, and composed football songs. He resided in America until 1922, when he returned to Germany.

National socialism had been promoted in the USA from 1888 by Edward Bellamy, author of the book "Looking Backward." Roosevelt was so impressed by Bellamy's book that Roosevelt wrote "Looking Forward" to impose Bellamy's national socialism in America Bellamy's book was an international bestseller and was tranlsated into every major language including German, Russian and Chinese. Clubs sprang up in the USA and worldwide for touting the book's ideas. The Bellamy dogma influenced socialists worldwide, including the countries of the socialist Wholecaust (of which the Holocaust was a part): 65 million dead under the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; 49 million under the Peoples' Republic of China; 21 million under the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSGWP).

Roosevelt's book was not an international bestseller. Roosevelt's policies (Bellamy schemes) were imposed by law on Americans, nevertheless.

National Socialists wanted government to monopolize education, and that scheme was supported by Roosevelt, Edward Bellamy, and Francis Bellamy (cousin and cohort to
Edward).

Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance that is chanted robotically in many government schools (socialist schools). The Bellamys wanted government to take over all
schools and create the "industrial army" from children to spread "military socialism."

The early Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag (1892 to 1945) was the origin of the straight-arm salute used later by the NSGWP, as shown in recent discoveries. Shocking photos are on the web. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-pledge.html

By the time Hanfstaengl was attending school in the U.S., the straight-arm salute was used for various purposes, including the National Anthem (the Star Spangled Banner),
for school flags, and even as a general greeting or cheer during sports events (including Harvard football games).

About 1921, Hanfstaengl returned to Germany and heard for the first time a speech by Hitler in a beer hall. Hitler stated that the first time he saw the straight-arm salute he was in a beer hall and he described it as occurring at "about" the same time (as when Hanfstaengl claims that Hanfstaengl heard him speak).

Hanfstaengl was so impressed that he became a follower of the NSGWP leader. Hanfstaengl participated in the failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Afterward, he sheltered Hitler in the attic of his home in Uffing, outside of Munich.

The straight-arm salute was not the only time that Hanfstaengl provided promotional assistance to the the NSGWP.

Hanfstaengl wrote Brownshirt marches based on his Harvard football songs. That is how Hanfstaengl devised the chant of "Heil Hitler" and "Sieg Heil." The leader of the NSGWP was so impressed with Hanfstaengl's style that Hanfstaengl became the unofficial piano player at various social gatherings. One night, at the home of the photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, he played band marches used at halftime in American football games. He described college cheerleanding and the deliberate whipping up of hysterical enthusiasm and robotic chanting. He described thousands of spectators being led in roars of, "Harvard, Harvard, Harvard, rah, rah, rah!" and about "the hypnotic effect of this sort of thing." Hanfstaengl demonstrated on the piano how German marches could be adapted to the buoyant American beat. The NSGWP's leader declared enthusiastically that the same performance was needed for German National Socialism. "Harvard, Harvard, Harvard" became "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" and "Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler! Heil Hitler!" Evidence for the preceding event is provided by the author Thomas Fuchs in his concise biography of the NSGWP leader; and by the author John Toland in his biography of the NSGWP leader (p.135); by the author Peter Conradi in his book "Piano Player: The Rise and Fall of Ernst Hanfstaengl"; and in Hanfstaengl's book "Unheard Witness" (1957).

Hanfstaengl helped spread the alphabetic symbolism of the swastiika, and even influenced the signature of the NSGWP's leader. An autographed photograph shows the signature of Hanfstaengl with a swastika used as alphabetic symbolism for the first letter "H."
http://rexcurry.net/swastika-hanfstaengl.html

The most that is known about the date of the photograph is "about 1934." About 1934 is when a similar alteration began in the signature of the NSGWP's leader. "Adolf" began to resemble one large "S" shape, evoking the swastika and it's "S" letters for "Socialism."

Although the swastika was an ancient symbol, it was also used sometimes by German National Socialists as alphabetic symbolism, including meshed "S" letters for their "socialism." The leader of German National Socialism altered his own signature to use the same stylized "S" letter for "socialist." Similar alphabetic symbolism still shows on Volkswagens. http://rexcurry.net/book1a1contents-swastika.html

In 1936, Berlin hosted the Olympic Games, where American athletes continued to demonstrate the straight-arm salute to the US flag during the National Anthem in awards ceremonies.

Eventually, Hanfstaengl fell completely out of favor and he had to flee Germany. In 1942 Hanfstaengl was moved from a Canadian Prisoner of War camp and turned over to the United States. He entered the employ of Roosevelt and advised him on the German National Socialist leader.

Although Roosevelt helped to defeat Germany in World War II, Roosevelt was put on the side of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Peoples' Republic of China.

At the end of WWII, Roosevelt helped to hand over half of Europe to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. After WWII, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the

Peoples' Republic of China went on to kill even more millions of people than had been killed by the National Socialist German Workers' Party.

It all shows how close the USA came (and is still coming) to the socialist Wholecaust. Many Americans serve as sad examples of how places like that come into existence, grow so large, last so long, and kill so many.

Historians make their work relevant to current events. Such stories are relevant to the fact that the present government in the USA is anti libertarian and is out-socializing the previous administration by more than double and growing (in social spending ALONE). The demonic dogma of socialism, sacrifice, and self-sacrifice is still growing all over the world.

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Rex Curry is published worldwide as a libertarian and a lawyer with a degree in journalism. http://RexCurry.net is the only site on the internet that collects and displays historic photographs of the original Pledge of Allegiance. Rex collects historic photos that show how socialism has harmed the U.S., and his hobby is also photography and graphic art, displayed on the website. His predecessors helped settle Key West back when Florida's government was virtually non-existent. The Curry Mansion (historic home of Florida's first capitalist millionaire) is still on the local tour.

Rexy@ij.net