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...Sannwald, a Lutheran pastor and an authority on German theology, was drafted into the German army in 1942. He was a studious and determined pupil of some of the greatest minds in theology when he left Harvard for Germany in 1925. He most likely died a lonely death on the Russian front in 1943, far from his five children and his wife in Stuttgart, and far from the university that had fostered his brilliance. As we approach a day meant to revere soldiers, the complicity in fascism of one of Harvard’s fallen remains a mystery...
...Sannwald wasn’t the only Harvard alumnus who fought under the flag of an Axis nation during World War II. 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...
Does remembering Sannwald, one who was thrust into the violence and hatred of Nazi Germany, constitute that sense of security...
From his home in Tübingen, Germany in 1924, Sannwald completed an application to study German “Christian theology” and “systematic theology” at HDS. Included with his application are four sterling recommendations, including one from famed German theologian Richard Lempp, under whom Sannwald studied...
...series of postcards, he expresses his excitement about studying in America, especially after receiving an $800 fellowship toward his studies at the University. Divinity School Dean Willard L. Sperry sent a letter to Sannwald during the summer of 1924 congratulating him on his fellowship and enthusiastically welcoming him to the school. “Personally, I am very glad that theological and religious fellowship is thus being reestablished between German and American Christians,” he wrote...