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...RICHARD VON Weizsacker seems to suffer from a double standard when it comes to his criminal father. Those who support the Harvard honor point to a speech he gave in 1985 after President Reagan agreed to visit Bitburg. In that speech, he appeared to acknowledge his own guilt and that of his generation...
...speaker is Richard von Weizsacker, current president of the Federal Republic of Gernmany. His father, Ernst von Weizsacker, was Hitler's state Secretary in the Reich foreign ministry and a member of Himmler's personal staff. Most significantly, he was the man who informed Adolf Eichmann, the official in 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...
...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...
...gloom lifted a bit after Moscow privately informed Bonn that West German officials would be allowed to visit Rust this Tuesday. It offered hope that the Soviets will not cancel a state visit by West German President Richard von Weizsacker scheduled for July...
Christopher Hogwood, the artistic director of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, has attracted a veritable cult following on the basis of his remarkable baroque recordings. Herbert von Karajan, the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, is renowned for his Beethoven and Brahms, though his latest recordings have been disappointing...