Reichsfuehrer Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter, chief organ of the Nazi Party, today assailed Prof. Albert Einstein, noted German scientist in exile in the United States, as “the apostle of Jewish physics.”
The newspaper attacked Dr. Einstein’s relativity theory as “nothing but artificial formulas based on irresponsible definitions.”
Declaring that German physics is based on actual experiment, the paper scored “Jewish physics” as having its basis in theoretical research.
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