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...while blaming others he persists on claiming that his own father--who was no ordinary citizen or even mere Nazi party member--did not know. Perhaps a son should not be condemned for blinding himself to his Nazi father's guilt, but nor should he be honored for his mendacity...
HARVARD IS once again honoring the undeserving. The principal graduation speaker this year--and almost certainly the recipient of an honorary degree--is a man who has spent much of his life apologizing for and defending the tarnished heritage of his Nazi war criminal father...
...charge of Jewish extermination, that there were no objections on the part of the German foreign ministry to the deportation of thousands of French and stateless Jews to Aushwitz. He was also the man who rejected Sweden's offer to accept Norwegian Jews about to be sent to Nazi death camps, and he refused to intervene on behalf of Catholic priests who were sent to the camps. After the war, the Baron was deservedly convicted of being a Nazi war criminal and sent to prison...
...surely no son should be punished--or even refused an honor--for the sins of his father. So let us catalogue the sins of the son and compare them with his virtues. Richard von Weizsacker was certainly no conscientious objector to Nazi aggression. He was a soldier who participated in the brutal invasion of Poland which commenced both World War II and Hitler's genocidal program. After the war, he helped his father lie to the Neurenberg tribunal by denying that he knew what was going on at Auschwitz. He helped his father construct a perjurious and unsuccessful defense which...
Richard von Weizsacker is not Kurt Waldheim. He should not be placed on any watch list. He should not be excluded from polite company. He should even be welcomed at Harvard, to lecture, to debate, to honor others. But should this apologist for his father's Nazi war crimes be among the two handfuls of distinguished people from around the globe honored by Harvard? Many survivers of the Holocaust and others who care deeply about justice do not believe so. They do not want the Harvard honor to be understood as helping Richard von Weizsacker "rehabilitate his family name...