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Why is there no mention of Philip Johnson's Nazi past? See http://jewishworldreview.com/0205/applebaum_stigma.php3, for example.

MSTCrow 03:31, Feb 4, 2005 (UTC) What about Poper Ratzinger's Nazi past? Also, I think that given he left Germany in 1939, give him some credit for waking up from his stupor.131.96.70.164 07:32, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

I agree that it would be good to summarize this (see also the article "Form follows fascism" in the 1/31/2005 New York Times). I myself had no knowledge of this previously. (Someone added one sentence, but it's clearly not really enough.) —Steven G. Johnson 17:04, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)

Source for recent edits re: Johnson's fascist past is Franz Schulze's biography "Philip Johnson: Life and Work" and Kazys Varnelis's online article "We Cannot Not Know History", at http://varnelis.net/research/johnson.html. I've traded emails with Professor Varnelis and he is a thoroughly credible source as well as a nice guy. --Lockley 02:40, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

I added some info on this....hopefully, after several edits, I came up with something balanced. (PS, added bullet points to all comments, for some odd reason they are all running together....) NickBurns 20:30, 21 September 2006 (UTC)