Talk:Waldemar Hoven

Pardon
The category Category:Pardon recipients keeps being added to this article. As it stands now, there is nothing in the article about a pardon being granted, either during his life or posthumously after execution. Obviously, for the category to be there, we need some information on a pardon being granted. Good Ol’factory (talk) 00:11, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I assume it was added in relation to "He was convicted and sentenced to death, although he was released in March of 1945 due to the Nazi shortage of doctors.", not the Nuremberg trials. Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead) 00:43, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I see. A pardon is a changing of the conviction to "not guilty". It's possible to be released after conviction as a result of a sentence being changed. In other words, you can be released due to a change in your sentence but not pardoned. We would need more information on whether the Nazis actually pardoned him or just reduced or eliminated his sentence. Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:30, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Useless eaters?
"He was also involved in Nazi euthenasia programs, during which people who were considered useless eaters were killed, along with Jewish people who were considered unfit for work."

Someone seems to have had a bit of fun with this article. Tchernobog —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.108.185.105 (talk) 19:05, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * "Useless eater" is the term used at that time for the mentally ill.--Mark v1.0 (talk) 19:19, 17 October 2014 (UTC)

Education
"Between the years 1919 and 1933, he visited Denmark, Sweden, the United States, and France, returning in 1933 to Freiburg, where he completed his high school studies."

Am I the only one who thinks it's a bit odd that he travelled around the world (apparently alone) between the ages of 16 and 30, then went back home to finish high school? Could this possibly be a misprint and he travelled for 4 years (not 14) and returned home to finish high school in 1923, at the age of 20?

If it isn't a misprint, then I have other questions: why did he stay away so long? Was he a tourist the entire 14 years? Did his family pay for his travels or did he work to support himself during that time? If he worked, what did he do, as a foreigner without even a high school education? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Esaons (talk • contribs) 13:44, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Assessment comment
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