Word: kratz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, also on Friday, the Council will enter a conference of debating teams from the Boston area at Milton Academy. Robert W. Kratz '51 and John H. Sutter '52 will battle a pair of Boston College debaters, taking the affirmative on the topic: "Resolved, That a federal world government be established...
...Middlebury debaters cited the advantages of the Labor Party regime, claiming its economic advantages overbalanced any inefficiency, while the Harvard group, composed of Howard G. Godfrcy '50 and W. Robert Kratz '50, opposed the present British government...
...July 22, 1943 in prison camp at Medicine Hat, Alta., Sergeant Schwalb and another Afrika Korps man, Private Adolf Kratz, decided that a fellow prisoner, August Plaszek, was an anti-Nazi "swine," apparently because he objected to the ironhanded rule of the prisoners by a Nazi clique. So Schwalb and Kratz hanged Plaszek. They were tried for murder in a civil court, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged...
...Kratz, 24, had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment. As two Mounties took him away to the penitentiary at Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he too was arrogant, and contemptuous of the soft-hearted Canadians. Said he: "After a few years all will be forgiven and I'll be sent home free...