Dimensions
130 x 197 x 20mm
"If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!"
With these words, Adolf Hitler closed the door on Germany's fifty-year record of supremacy in science. This book tells the gripping story of the 2,500 Jewish scientists who fled Germany and Austria on Hitler's rise to power.
The heart-warming individual accounts include those of Albert Einstein; and Leo Szilard, the restless genius who went on to help develop the atomic bomb. The authors draw much of their material from interviews with more than twenty surviving refugee scientists - as one wrote, "Far from destroying the spirit of German scholarship, the Nazis had spread it all over the world. Only Germany was to be the loser."
