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...Germans were swept off their feet by Hitler,” says Maier regarding Sannwald??s dubious political position. “People might have poor political judgment… [but] we still might commemorate them...
...Special Student Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto—one of the central planners behind the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor—and Dr. Shokichi Otajima, a 1934 graduate of the School of Public Health, were killed in the Japanese army in New Georgia and Saipan, respectively. Their names, unlike Sannwald??s, remain tucked in yellowing folders in the University Archives...
...Memorial Church’s plaque was conceived by a committee headed by former Governor and then-Senator Leverett Saltonstall ’14. The $75,000 marker was unveiled the week of Veterans’ Day in 1951; it was hard to miss the notation that followed Sannwald??s name. Almost immediately, The Crimson wrote that the inclusion of his name was “contradictory” to the aims of the memorial...
...controversy over Sannwald??s name reflects a struggle at Harvard with the ambiguities of commemorating its war dead. In 1874, the transept of Memorial Hall was completed as a monument to Harvard alumni who were killed and “fought for the Union cause” during the American Civil War. One hundred thirty-six names were engraved on 28 white marble tablets in the opulent transept hall, and no mention was made of those who fought under the Confederacy...
Prompted by this writer’s curiosity, a recent investigation into Sannwald??s archived file by The Crimson complicates Sannwald??s presumed blamelessness. In a letter dated July 1946, Dean Sperry wrote to Grabau that he had heard from Sannwald in either 1936 or 1937. He wrote that Sannwald invited him to Germany to see “the wonderful rebirth the nation was having under Hitler...
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