Word: krupp
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...three decisions which McCloy has been attacked for--the failure to bomb Ausehwitz the interment of the Japanese Americans and the Krupp case--are all matters much clearer in hindsight than they were at the time. In each case a strong argument can be make on either military or legal grounds for the decision which McCloy made or participated in These were 51 49 decisions made by men during national crises under the pressure of time and with incomplete information. It is a false and insidrous analogy to compare the decision makers in these cases to the Nazi war criminals...
Perhaps some of the outrage directed to McCloy on this matter can be attributed to his controversial decision to order the unconditional release of Alfried Krupp, the armaments magnate. Krupp had originally been convicted for employing slave labor from the concentration camps in his family's munitions factories during the war. McCloy received a barrage of criticism back home for freeing this man who for many was a living symbol of the Nazi nightmare. This is a point consistently raised by students protesting the scholarship naming. McCloy, Brinkley says, simply saw the commuting of Krupp's sentence as a symbolic...
...himself in 1951, McCloy commuted the sentences of 10 of the 15 prisoners sentenced to death, and substantially reduced the sentences of others. In explaining his actions, McCloy cited such reasons as "lack of primary responsibility, age, and limited participation" of the convicted criminals. In the case of Alfred Krupp, who was charged with collaborating with the Hitler government in the use of slave labor, McCloy overruled the board's sentence of 12 years and confiscation of all property for Krupp, changing it to time already served and no confiscation--because confiscation, to quote McCloy's Landsberg report, is "generally...
...also helped oversee the Japanese internment, he complied with American policy to refuse to bomb the Auschwitz concentration camp and he argued against easing immigration quotas for Jews. When overseeing the restoration of West Germany, he commuted the sentences of several Nazi war criminals, including the notorious Alfred Krupp, who ran his armaments factory with slave labor...
Other Harvard Fellowship recipients included Dr. Daniel Bell, Ford Professor of Social Sciences; Barry C. Mazur, Petachek Professor of Mathematics; Alessandro Pizzorno, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies: Simson M. Schama, professor of History: Dr. Jerry Sebag, clinical fellow in Opthamology at the Medical School; Steven M. Shavell, professor of Law and Economics: Dr. Susan R. Suleiman, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures; and Dr. James D. Wilkinson '65, associate professor of History...