The Nazi in the Classroom [Historians/History] tags: [Nazism] , [immigration] , [academic freedom] , [Edward Sittler] Gary Ostrower is recently retired as Professor of History at Alfred University. He has also taught at Vassar College, the University of Pennyslvania, and the University of Aarhus (Denmark) as a Fulbright Lecturer. He is the author of multiple books on the League of Nations and the United Nations. Three days after World War II began, as Nazi troops stormed into Poland, Ohio-born Edward Sittler, a 23-year-old study-abroad student in Germany, applied for German citizenship. Not only did he become a German citizen; he...