From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik : "Lenard began a core campaign to label Einstein's Relativity a

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik : "Lenard began a core campaign to label Einstein's Relativity as Jewish Physics. Lenard and Stark enjoyed the Nazi support because it allowed them to undertake a professional coup for their preferred scientific theory. Under the rallying cry that physics should be more "German" and "Aryan," Lenard and Stark, with backing from the Nazi leadership, entered on a plan to pressure and replace physics positions at German universities with people teaching their preferred theories. By the late 1930s, there were no longer any Jewish physics professors in Germany, since under the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 Jews were not allowed to work in universities." "It is occasionally put forth that there is a great irony in the Nazis' labeling modern physics as "Jewish science", since it was exactly modern physics—and the work of many European exiles—which was used to create the atomic bomb. Even if the German government had not embraced Lenard and Stark's ideas, the German antisemitic agenda was enough by itself to destroy the Jewish scientific community in Germany."