Word: sannwald
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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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...
...expunging of the name of Adolf Sannwald from the plaque in Memorial Church is a strikingly ill-considered action. If the plaque is to be a nationalist memorial and so honor only those who happened to fight on our side in the war, it should still not dishonor those on the other. To attempt now to remove the name from the plaque, besides being absurdly expensive and detrimental to the appearance of the plaque, would not merely cease to honor Adolf Sannwald, but would actively dishonor him. A very minor error has been committed. Why spend money merely to make...
...question, Adolf Sannwald, attended the Divinity School in 1924 and 1925. Taken into the Nazi army as a chaplain in January 1942. Sannwald was killed June 3, 1943 on the Russian front. His name has been included in all University casualty lists since 1946, when Harvard learned of his death...
Apparently there was never any discussion of the inclusion of Sannwald's name, although this action was in contradiction to the University's policy in the World War I memorial plaque...
...philosophy it is used. Not only is this a dubious rationale, but it brings the question of motives into the issue. There can be no answer to this question, for who can tell whether a soldier fought and died because he was patriotic, or because he was drafted? Chaplain Sannwald may have been motivated by religious principles which demanded that he minister to all those in need, rather than by love of country. It is sentimentality to construct a memorial plaque on the mere assumption that all those whose names are listed died out of patriotism...