The Great Purge (1933)

β€œIf the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” β€” Adolf Hilter

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... The #GreatPurge (1933)

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... More than 250 #Jewish professors and employees were fired from the University of #Berlin in 1933–34 and numerous doctorates were withdrawn. πŸ‘‰In May, some 20,000 books written by β€œdegenerates” and opponents of the Nazi regime were removed from the university library and burned in the #Babelplatz ... πŸ‘ˆ"

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... The #GreatPurge (1933)

... 1933 with the #Nazi party’s seizure of control in #Germany and their passing of the #Berufsbeamtengesetz (β€œLaw for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service”), certain groups of public employees were dimissed from #German universities. That is, πŸ‘‰civil servants who did not fit the #Nazi racial or societal ideal had to leave their jobs in...

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... The #GreatPurge (1933)

... mathematics was rivaled, if at all, only by #Britain (Medawar & Pyke, 2000). Of the 100 #Nobel Prizes awarded between the years of 1901 and 1932 (the year before #Hitler came to power), 33 had been awarded to #Germans and/or scientists working in #Germany...

... Then, starting in..

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...The #GreatPurge (1933)

πŸ‘‰β€œIf the dismissal of #Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” β€” #AdolfHitlerπŸ‘ˆ

See the future US in the mirror?

"Prior to the 1930s, πŸ‘‰#Germany had dominated the natural sciences for more than one hundred and fifty years.πŸ‘ˆ Its reputation for excellence in chemistry, physics, biology, medicine...

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The Great Purge (1933)

β€œIf the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” β€” Adolf Hilter

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@andrewdessler

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... detained and likely deported. On 19 May 1943, πŸ‘‰only about 20,000 Jews remained... "πŸ‘ˆ 1)

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany

History of the Jews in Germany - Wikipedia

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Even for people not being Jews, the history of the German #Jews should be a blood-red warning sign:

" of the 522,000 Jews living in Germany in January 1933, approximately 304,000 emigrated during the first six years of Nazi rule and about 214,000 were left on the eve of #world War II. Of these, 160,000–180,000 were killed as a part of the #Holocaust...

...inspection checkpoints, leading to 65 percent of all submerged #Jews...