University Daily Kansan, September 28, 1983
Man who told Allies of genocide named
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The German industrialist who warned the Allies of Adolf Hitler's "final solution" to kill millions of Jews in World War II was Eduard Reinhold Karl Schulthe, two historians said yesterday.
Scholars have known for 42 years that an informant had told the Allies in advance of the genocide plan, but the identity of the informant — whose warnings went unheeded — was unspecified to two men who pledged confidentiality.
American University history profes
sors Alan Kraut and Richard Breitman reviewed mountains of documents and, through a process of elimination, identified Schulte as the informant. Their report is being published in the Oct. 1 issue of Commentary magazine.
KRAUT AND BREITMAN knew that the informer made his reports on Hitler's plans to Benjamin Salagowal, press officer of the Jewish religious community in Berlin and Gerhart Rieger, Swiss representative of the World Jewish Congress.
Because Reigner admitted that the informant was a German industrialist whose last name began with an "S", the historians began by identifying a dozen
German industrialists whose names began with that letter.
A key piece of evidence was a letter written in September 1942 to a person in St. Gallon, Switzerland. The letter, bearing the initials J.H., sent the Germans were deporting all Jews to their deaths, except for the iron workers.
The initials on the letter helped Kraut and Breitman identify Schulte as the mysterious informant.
"The industrialist had uncovered one of the greatest secrets in Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler's Final Solution killed all the Jews in gas chambers," the two
professors wrote.
THEY DESCRIBE SCHULTE as the first person "to reveal the scope of Nazi plans."
In an interview, Kraut said that Schulte, who was the director of a German mining company, passed on his knowledge to valuable information to the Allies out of precaution.
He said Schulte also warned the Allies in May 1941 that a German invasion of the Soviet Union was inevitable. The invasion followed on June 22.
His information came from sources in the highest echelon of the German military but was unheeded by U.S. intelligence officials.
Teacher of the Year will meet with KU students
By the Kansan Staff
Patricia Boyd, the 1983 Kansas Teacher of The Year, will speak at the Oct. 12 meeting of the KU School of Education's student organization.
Boyd, a teacher at Central Junior High School for the past eight years, said she wanted her visit to the library to open discussion with education students.
"What I'm excited about is talking to the kids about their experiences in the hospital."
The teacher of the year award is
sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine in cooperation with various organizations.
"This award is a very representative one," Boyd said. "I look at it, as I'm sure my colleagues and the sponsors of the award do, as a representative of what thousands of teachers across this state and the nation are doing."
BOYD, WHO TEACHES music and photography at Central, said her goal in the classroom was to open as many doors as possible to the students.
"I tend to take a renaissance approach to learning," Boyd said. "I believe that the more you learn, the
more you find out you didn't know."
Boyd said that teachers today had to recommit themselves to children, and she said her involvement as a volleyball coach, sponsor of the student literary magazine and organizer of a summer camp, three ways she increased student interest.
She said the magazine, Inkspots, had won acclaim throughout the state.
"The kind of work these kids do is incredible, a sensitive and the maturity of a child."
Boyd's appearance before the school organization will be one of several she has made since winning the award.
On Thursday she will speak before the Kansas Board of Education on the results of the National Commission on Education's "Nation at Risk" report.
BOYD WILL ALSOTake part in a
work at Lawrence High School on
Tuesday.
In July, Boyd and 36 other Teacher of the Year winners, met with President Reagan and Terrel Bell, secretary of education.
"The meeting enlightened us in some ways, but mainly what it did was to continue the dialogue on education," Boyd said.
WWII Britain less racist than U.S., historian says
By CHRISTY FISHER
Staff Reporter
Black American soldiers stationed in Britain during World War II enjoyed more civil rights than they did in the states, a British historian said yesterday.
David Reynolds, a senior lecturer from Christ College in Cambridge, England, spoke about his research on black soldiers in the U.S. Army and their experiences in Britain during World War II.
Reynolds speech was sponsored by the KU department of history.
REYNOLDS SAID THAT he was surprised to find that black soldiers enjoyed more civil rights in Britain than they did in America, especially during World War II — well before American civil rights movements.
Reynolds, who wrote "The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance, 1937-41: A Study in Competitive Cooperation," specializes in the study of human relationships during that period.
He said that because Britain had no tradition of formal segregation, black soldiers were free to enter pubs, restaurants and public places — much to the disdain of fellow white soldiers. There was racial mixing because the
soldiers had a lot of free time and the British people, especially the lower classes, found them more polite than the white American soldiers.
Although the British were apprehensive of the blacks at first, they socialized with them because they were viewed as a curiosity, Reynolds said.
"A black GI did not come to Britain to live. He did not come to marry their daughters. He did not come to take their jobs. Black people were totally new to the British people. They were not seen as a threat," Reynolds said.
BY GETTING THE attention of senior commanding officers, blacks managed to get a larger and more equal role in the U.S. Army. In 1942 General Dwight D. Eisenhower adopted a policy of indictment where no trouble, no racial slurs and no distinctions based on color were to be made.
"Eisenhower was very insistent of this policy — but segregation was discreetly avoided," Reynolds said. "Leave passes would only be granted for the blacks on one night and the white on the next night on a rotating basis."
He said this was done because white soldiers would usually create trouble for black soldiers after drinking on leave.
Black protest also played a role in granting more equal rights. Although
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BECAUSE OF MOUNTING social pressure, the military decided that blacks should be represented in the military in proportion to the blacks in the U.S. population, which was 10 percent. Blacks were also allowed for the first time to participate in all branches of the military.
Reynolds said that the question of efficiency and inequity also played a primary role in altering U.S. military policy.
housing facilities for blacks were far worse than whites, and that the military realized that separate housing was a great waste of resources.
Reynolds said Eisenhower also aimed for a more effective use of manpower by changing policies and increasing morale. Before 1942, blacks were segregated into troops that were commanded by racist, incompetent white officers who were assigned to them as punishment, he said.
"The black problem was a result of the white problem." Reynolds said.
Reynolds said the army was ahead of its time because in wartime racial conflicts, low morale and inefficiency could not be tolerated.
He said the "separate-bul-qual" doctrine would not work because the
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Higher grade requirement may help rush participants
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL Staff Reporter
For women who want to pledge sororities, rush is a time of stiff competition and anxiety about the fact that will receive invitations to join a house.
However, an indirect effect of a new grade-point average requirement approved last spring by the city could lessen these anxieties a little.
The minimum grade-point average requirement for eligibility for rush, which Panhellenic voted last spring to raise from 2.0 to 2.3, could mean that fewer women would go to school. They also had a higher percentage of women who did could be accepted into sororities, Panhellenic officials said recently.
LYNN HUSS, OMAHA, Neb, senior, and Panhellenic vicepresident for membership, said that the association's intent was to bring some uniformity to the minimum requirement. She said the various houses had minimum grade-point requirements between 2.0 and 2.5.
"The new requirement will probably reduce the number of women who go through rush every year a little bit, and will probably let a higher percentage of applicants in." Huss said. "Slimming does the application wasn't the primary reason for passing the rule, though" she said.
sir said.
Allyson Beardsley, Overland Park
senior and president of Panhellenic.
said that 689 women went through rush last year and that 69 percent, or 475 women, were accepted into KU's 13 nohellenic sororities.
Huss said, "Lots of the houses had grade point requirements below 2.3 and many had them at 2.5 or so, and it was a sort of patchwork pattern.
We realize that this may limit the number of grades we can also see for such a rule.
"Our intent was to try to make women going through rush and women in the houses work harder at keeping their grades up. The number of people who will probably change only by a percentage point," she said.
"In a sorority, a goal is scholarship. To have just a 2.0 requirement wasn't helping us live up to our scholastic goals," she said.
BEARDSLEY SAID, however, that sororities sometimes made exceptions to the grade-point requirement.
"Some houses will take a scholarship risk" sometimes on a girl who might have a grade-point average a little bit under their requirements if they think that she's a neat person and she would really fit in well.
Frances Platt, house director of Alpha Chi Omega, 1500 Sigma Nu Place, said that she was in favor of the stiffer requirements.
"We can't take as many as the number who go through rush. But I think that this new, tougher requirement will be a good thing. There would be a smaller, better field of applicants," she said.
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