Word: adolf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expunging of the name of Adolf Sannwald from the plaque in Memorial Church is a strikingly ill-considered action. If the plaque is to be a nationalist memorial and so honor only those who happened to fight on our side in the war, it should still not dishonor those on the other. To attempt now to remove the name from the plaque, besides being absurdly expensive and detrimental to the appearance of the plaque, would not merely cease to honor Adolf Sannwald, but would actively dishonor him. A very minor error has been committed. Why spend money merely to make...
...question, Adolf Sannwald, attended the Divinity School in 1924 and 1925. Taken into the Nazi army as a chaplain in January 1942. Sannwald was killed June 3, 1943 on the Russian front. His name has been included in all University casualty lists since 1946, when Harvard learned of his death...
...collectors' items from the rare book department of Charles Scribner's Sons in Manhattan included a copy of the declaration which launched the Franco-Prussian War, signed by Kaiser Wilhelm, and priced at $2,750. It was a gift from Rudolph Hess to his good friend Adolf Hitler and inscribed in gold: "To the Führer, Christmas, 1938, in which year he twice overran borders in order to bring back German territory into the Reich." Among half a dozen other books from the Führer's personal library: autographed first editions by Authors Alfred Rosenberg...
...that was the University's purpose, why did the Corporation approve the inclusion of the name of Adolf Sannwald, a chaplain killed in the service of the German Army? Whatever were Sannwald's motives for fighting in the Nazi cause, it is obvious that he was not defending in any way the principles of freedom that have so nourished Harvard. As long ago as 1934, President Conant rebuked a high Nazi official, Ernst F.S. Hanfstaengl '09, by refusing his offer of a gift because it was "so closely associated with the leadership of a political party which has inflicted damage...
...contrast to the 1931 controversy, there was neither discussion nor comment about the inclusion of an Axis casualty in the World War II plaque. The inscription under the category of the Divinity School lists two names, one of which reads "Adolf Sannwald (Enemy Casualty)." Apparently, when the Corporation approved the list of names, Sannwald's was not discussed individually, either...