Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled by the Nazi RegimeAbout the 1,500 plus Austrian and German scientist refugees of the 1930s and 1940s. Tells the stories of scientists who left Continental Europe due to the Third Reich coming into power in Germany, including Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber, and Leo Szilard. Tells the stories of scientists who decided to stay in Continental Europe during the Third Reich's control of Germany, including Max Planck, Werner Heisenberg, and Max von Laue. |
Contents
The Coming of the Nazis | 15 |
Einstein | 31 |
Rescuers | 49 |
Refugees to Britain Physicists | 69 |
Refugees to Britain Biologists and Chemists | 95 |
Refugees to the United States | 131 |
Those Who Stayed | 157 |
Internment | 191 |
The Bomb | 211 |
Their Universities | 241 |
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