The six-year fight to erase university foundation’s Nazi ties

Campaigners for change say universities need to be more proactive and systematic in investigating their benefactors’ pasts

Published on
January 14, 2019
Last updated
January 15, 2019
David Matthews
berlin-wall
Source: Getty
Past crimes: after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many people applied to the state for financial redress over Nazi actions
Read more about
Read more about: 
University fundraising
University governance

Register to continue

Why register?

  • Registration is free and only takes a moment
  • Once registered, you can read 3 articles a month
  • Sign up for our newsletter
Please
or
to read this article.

Related articles

Jefferson with paint over face

Must Rhodes fall?

Buildings and statues dedicated to people whose views clash with modern values can cause difficulties, but is tearing down history the answer?

By Jack Grove
15 December

Reader's comments (2)

#1 Submitted by m.... on January 14, 2019 - 9:02am
Oh dear, this ugly revisionist maltreatment of history, judging people from the past in the light of how we think today. I wonder what people will be horrified by in an hundred years time about what we consider correct behaviour today... and if they too will be so ignorant as to consider that those who don't dance to whatever ethical drum THEY beat are evil and to be derided?
#2 Submitted by Brido on January 14, 2019 - 12:17pm
I'm pretty sure they'll continue to think that seizing a person's property under a state-sponsored programme of racially-based persecution is "evil and to be derided."

You might also like

Sponsored

Featured jobs

See all jobs
ADVERTISEMENT