The Rockefeller Foundation granted a total of $532,181 between 1933 and the end of 1936 for the support of 151 scholars in exile from Germany, according to a portion of the foundation’s annual report made public today by Raymond B. Fosdick, president.
Most of these scholars, the report said, found permanent posts in the countries of their adoption. The Foundation’s grant involved aid to universities and research institutions in eleven countries.
Of the total of 1,639 German scholars, Jewish and non-Jewish, who have lost their positions in the Reich under the Hitler regime, 835 have found positions in institutions in other lands, according to the report. Of these, 432 appear to have found permanent positions. The exiled scholars are scattered in 46 countries.
The scholars who have lost their positions, the report said, include many Jews, others with Jewish antecedents, in some cases remote, and some connected with Jews by marriage. They also include a considerable number of scholars, who, in the German definition, are pure “Aryans,” but whose convictions make them unacceptable to the present German Government.
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