12. "Pinto-Duschinsky now no longer accuses the Toepfer Foundation in the present of covering up its past and that of its founder." The Foundation made the archives off-limits for several months in 2010 when needed to prepare for the Oxford review. I stand by my critique of its historical "grey-washing".
13. "The Foundation has expressed clear regret about its past." The Foundation and the Toepfer family have refused to give the requested apology. Regrets on the Foundation's website have been carefully hedged.
As a concluding point, the response from Oxford to a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act reveals that, when I submitted my memorandum on Toepfer in October 2010, Oxford's Committee to Review Donations which adjudicated the matter included no historians. It consulted neither Evans nor any other historian. Nevertheless, that committee endorsed as sufficient the Foundation's version of its history.
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