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...David G. Furth, the curatorial associate, had been responsible for supervising volunteer Gary P. Dahlstrom, who was arrested by Harvard police earlier this month on charges that he stole parts of exhibits, as well as the personal property of museum employees...
...Furth said the Dahlstrom issue was only one of many "problems with personnel" that had put his job in jeopardy. Furth said he did not understand why he had been singled out for blame for Dahlstrom's thefts, and he indicated he would discuss the matter with the museum's administrative director, Jay L. Taft, later this week...
...Nothing has been finalized at this point," Furth said yesterday. "I did seem to be blamed for it. I don't know...
When Henry Kissinger returned to Germany in 1945 as a U.S. Army sergeant, he discovered a friend from Furth who had survived the concentration camps. He watched over him during his recovery, and when he left to live with an aunt in the U.S., Kissinger tried to prepare her. The survivors, he wrote, "had seen man from the most evil side. Who can blame them for being suspicious...
Kissinger denied that the Nazi holocaust, which forced him and his family to flee to the U.S., and which claimed many of his relatives, had an impact on his thinking. He once told a reporter that his childhood in Furth "seems to have passed without leaving any lasting impressions...