History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

Publication Date: Thursday, March 16, 1933
Historical Event: Albert Einstein Quits Germany, Renounces Citizenship
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: The Des Moines Register
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Page Section and Number: 9
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: NEW YORK. N.Y. (AP) — Prof. Albert Einstein announced himself a voluntary exile for the present from Germany when he arrived here Wednesday from California.

Einstein said he "will not put foot on German soil as long as conditions in Germany are as at present."

En Route to Belgium.
He sails Saturday for Antwerp, Belgium, there intending to decide his future course.

Without mentioning Germany he referred to "the prevailing disease of an exaggerated nationalism," and said:

"This nationalism is a grave danger for the entire western civilization, which at one time had its origin In Greece.

"Eastern Europe."
"Behind it are powers inimical to life. To combat it is inescapably the duty of every well-intentioned and perceiving being of our time."

He spoke of Jewish persecution in "eastern Europe" and said "it is not easy to say where the western boundaries of this eastern Europe are to be sought.".
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