- Headline
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Einstein Renounces Citizenship As Nazis Continue War On Jews
- Sub-Headline
- Former Swiss Turns on Prussians as People Picket Stores and Storm Courts
- Publication Date
- Thursday, March 30, 1933
- Historical Event
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Albert Einstein Quits Germany, Renounces Citizenship
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- 1
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- AP
- Article Text
- BERLIN. March 29—(AP)—As direct-action repressive measures by Chancellor Adolf Hitler's Nazis got under way against Jews in many parts of Germany today as a prelude to the nation-wide anti-Jewish boycott which begins Saturday, it was learned Prof. Albert Einstein has taken steps to renounce his Prussian citizenship.
Professor Einstein, a Jew, became a citizen in 1914 when he accepted a position with the Prussian academy of sciences. Upon landing at Brussels after his recent trip to the United States, he wrote to the German consulatte [sic] there for information about the steps necessary to end his citizenship. He pointed out that he formerly was Swiss.
The anti-Jewish boycott, the deadline for which was set by Nazi ...
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Learn More about this Historical Event: Albert Einstein Quits Germany, Renounces Citizenship
- Nazi Terror Begins
- Boycott of Jewish Businesses
- German Jewish Refugees, 1933-1939
- Einstein Archives Online (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Einstein Papers Project (The California Institute of Technology)
- The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Princeton University Press)
Bibliography
Friedländer, Saul. Nazi Germany and the Jews. New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
Isaacson, Walter. Einstein: His Life and Universe. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
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