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Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994), a research fellow in genetics at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin Dahlem who emigrated in 1933, later told friends and colleagues: “Thanks to Hitler I became a scientist.”1
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Professor Raphael Falk in interviews with the author (1996, 1999).
Lise Meitner to Gertrud Schiemann, dated 29 October 1938, letters of Lise Meitner-Elisabeth Schiemann. Meitner-Nachlass, MTNR, 5/32, transcribed: Part 1: 1911–1939: 146–148, (Cambridge, Churchill College Archives). See (Lemmerich 2010).
On Berlin University see (Schottlander 1988) and (Jarausch 1995); on the Technische Hochschule Berlin see (Schottländer 1979); on Göttingen University see (Szabó 2000); on mathematicians see (Siegmund-Schultze 1998, 2009).
See (Schappacher 1987).
(Gumbel 1936: 67), [Gleichschaltung of the University of Heidelberg], cited in (Vogt 1991: 216–217). On Gumbel see (Jansen 1991) and (Vogt 2001) as well as (Brenner 1990, 1993, 2001) and (Hertz 1997).
See (Pinl; Furtmuller 1973).
On the history of the DMV during the Nazi time, see (Remmert 2004a, 2004b) as well as (Schappacher; Kneser 1990) and (Mehrtens 1985).
(Gumbel 1937), [Aryan mathematics]; republished in (Vogt 1991: 218–221).
(Gumbel 1937: 110), quoted in (Vogt 1991: 221). Gumbel plays with the names of Fritz Kubach (1912–1945), another Nazi activist and supporter of “Deutsche Mathematik” and Ludwig Bieberbach. The ending “-bach” means brook.
See (Remmert 2004a: 160).
Dozentenführer were either lecturers or professors, members of the Nazi Party, who were able, for example, to support or ban a Habilitation; they very often denounced students and colleagues. See (Remmert 2004a: 165).
On the Physical Society in Nazi time see (Hoffmann; Walker 2007).
See (Remmert 2004b: 224–228). See E. Sperner’s letter to Suss, Muller and Hasse on 28 March1939, with the list of the remaining Jewish mathematicians who were still apparently being sent meeting reports.
See (List 1936) and (Strauss 1987). On the AAC, see (Beveridge 1959) and (Hirschfeld 1988).
See box 119/2 to 119/4 on the Notgemeinschaft as well as “personal files” of all emigres named in the (List 1936), (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Archive S.P.S.L.).
See (Strauss; Roder 1980–1983).
See (Basnizki 1998).
While the AAC compiled a list of 60 mathematicians in 1936, (Pinl; Furtmuller 1973) reconstructed the fate of 127 mathematicians, and the authors of the 1998 exhibition catalogue counted 130 mathematicians, see (Bruning 1998: 61–65).
See (Pukelsheim 1996: 44), [Giving up a career on principle — in mathematics, too?], Letter to the editor. This letter was prompted by an article in the Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 165, 19 July 1995: N2.
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Vogt, A. (2012). Dismissal and Exile. In: Bergmann, B., Epple, M., Ungar, R. (eds) Transcending Tradition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22464-5_13
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