In 1933, Albert Einstein petitioned Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Ataturk to allow “forty professors and doctors from Germany” to immigrate to Turkey, amid increasing hostilities in their own country. “These scientists are willing to work for a year without any remuneration,” Einstein assured Ataturk. In the 1930s and 1940s, Einstein worked tirelessly to help those threatened by war in Europe.
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If only these scientists had guns, they would not have had to move to Turkey.
Interesting.
I was up late the other night wiki-surfing from one stupid thing to another to make myself tired, and I started reading about Wernher von Braun, the Nazi rocket engineer that invented the bombs that were dropped on London. He became a chief rocket engineer at NASA after WW2, coming over to the US in what was known as Operation Paperclip that brought over 1500 scientists, many with Nazi party affiliation. He was the Chief Architect of the Saturn V rocket of the Apollo manned moon missions. Fascinating history.
Can anyone answer this question?: Was the letter successful in its goal?
And I’d be curious to know if anyone can read the notation that have been handwritten on the sides by the recipient (I presume)
Interesting that the German president of a French organization is writing in English to a Turkish president.
That is globalism… or something!
I note that the letterhead says “Union of the OSE Society, for the protection of the health of the Jewish population.”