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...Adolf Sannwald (Enemy Casualty)" remains one of the two names inscribed under the Divinity School, of which he was a member of the class of 1926. Last December 11 the University admitted "the inclusion of the name of one alumnus who served in the German army was an error and will be corrected...
Entering the Nazi army as a chaplain in January 1942, Sannwald was killed June 3, 1943, on the Russian front. His name was included in all the University casualty lists since 1946, when the University learned of his death...
Inclusion of Sannwald's name is in direct contradiction to the University's policy followed on the World War plaque. When, in 1931, the University built Memorial Church to honor its dead, it omitted the names of four alumni who had died on the German side...
...brief statement in December, Harvard reported that the inclusion on the War Memorial Plaque in Memorial Church of Adolf Sannwald, a Divinity student from 1924 to 1925, was a mistake and his name would be removed. Sannwald, a pastor of a church in Stuttgart, was drafted as a "common soldier" in June of 1942 and sent to Russia. At the time of his death a year later, however, he was serving as a chaplain...
From an article published in The New York Times of December 9, 1951, it appears that you objected in an editorial that the name of Adolf Sannwald, a German chaplain, and a former student of Harvard University was included on a memorial dedicated to the 697 students, alumni and faculty who died in Word...