Biography
Max Sandin was a Russian-Jewish immigrant living in Cleveland. Max Sandin was a WWI absolutist who refused all military service. Court-martialed and originally sentenced to death, his sentence was commuted, and he was imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth before his release in 1920. A lifelong pacifist, he again refused to cooperate with conscription during World War II.
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Confirmed Camp Funston guardhouse transfer
The signed report on treatment of conscientious objectors identifies Max Sandin among those received at the Camp Funston Military Police Guard House on September 27, 1918. This is a confirmed facility receipt, not an independently established new arrest or beginning of all imprisonment. The September 5 and September 27 groups explicitly came from the Fort Riley guardhouse. The October 6 entry describes Sandin collapsing under a forced cold shower, and the October 8 entry names him among those joining the hunger strike. The signatory list explicitly prints Max Sandin; no unproved Maki Sandin identity is merged. The report covers events through October 21 but does not supply an individual discharge date. Existing original-admission, release, sentence and total-duration fields are not replaced by this receipt date or calculated from a military sentence.
