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Hitler publicly criticized Steiner’s philosophy, which was part of why Steiner moved to Switzerland late in his life, and when the Nazis took power in the 1930-40s, they closed the Waldorf schools in Germany and banned Steiner’s philosophy and writings. In my daughter’s class, for example, there students who are Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, agnostic and atheist and when my daughter shares her thoughts about her rainbow array of artwork and the lessons that inspired them, I have never detected even the slightest whiff of a lurking white supremacist symbolism. In fact, her class is quite ethnically diverse for Eugene and students are expected to be inclusive and kind to all of their classmates.