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It's strange to call Albert Einstein a "German citizen" in _1944_, since by 1943 all German Jews had been murdered or exiled. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alb
by gpawl 9y ago
It's strange to call Albert Einstein a "German citizen" in _1944_, since by 1943 all German Jews had been murdered or exiled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
> In 1901, after being stateless for more than five years, Einstein acquired Swiss citizenship, which he kept for the rest of his life.
> He settled in the United States, becoming an American citizen in 1940
- boomboomsubban 9y agoYes, that was the point. And being an American citizen tells you more about his philosophy, as most American physicists would not have been allowed to write such a letter in 1944.