ALFRED TOEPFER
September 2011
The debate over whether Oxford university's Hanseatic scholarships were paid for by Nazi profiteering continues. Two eminent academics put forward their cases
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July/August 2011
Despite my revelations in Standpoint about the sinister motives of the Hamburg tycoon and Oxford benefactor Alfred Toepfer, the "greywashing" of the crimes of Nazi Germany continues
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April 2010
Alfred Toepfer posed as a peacemaker in postwar Europe and lavished awards on British artists. Unknown to them, he played a key role in the Third Reich and helped war criminals flee justice
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