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Alfons Goldschmidt, Exiled Reich Economist, Dead in Mexico

January 24, 1940
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The death of Prof. Alfons Goldschmidt, noted German Jewish economist, in Mexico City on Sunday was disclosed here today by the German-American Writers’ Association. Dr. Goldschmidt, who was 61, had been teaching at the University of Mexico City for a year at the invitation of the Mexican Government.

Prof. Goldschmidt was known in Germany as a journalistic expert in economics. He came here in 1933 and his books were among those publicly burned in Berlin. Prof. Albert Einstein has spoken of him as “a Jew who has put his whole life as a scientist at the service of social justice.”

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