Surviving the Swastika

Surviving the Swastika PDF Author: Kristie Macrakis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195070100
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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Book Description
A study of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft in the Nazi period. Ch. 3 (p. 51-72), "From Accommodation to Passive Opposition, 1933-35," discusses the dismissal of Jews from the various institutes. Max Planck tried to protect his Jewish colleagues from the Nazi authorities, but in vain. The only act of resistance undertaken by the scientists was the Fritz Haber Memorial Ceremony in 1935 (Haber, a Jewish scientist, died in Switzerland in 1934); the Nazis reluctantly allowed it to be held.