A sum of $340,000 has been appropriated by the Rockefeller Foundation to help non-“Aryan” professors and scientists who were compelled to leave Germany since the Nazis came into power, it was reported today by the office of James G. MacDonald, High Commissioner for Jewish and other refugees from Germany.
The report discloses that 236 non-“Aryan” scholars and scientists from Germany have been placed in various educational institutions in America. The total of Jewish professors and scientists dismissed in Germany under the “Aryan Paragraph” is given in the report as 1,202.
$1,000,000 RAISED
The report states that approximately $1,000,000 has been raised during the past two years by the academic committees which were organized in many countries to help the scholars exiled from Nazi Germany. The $340,000 given by the Rockefeller Institution was used as grants to institutions in Europe and in America, contributing toward the salaries of the displaced scholars appointed to the staffs of these institutions.
“The university world of Germany offered little opposition to the new government policy of dismissing non-“Aryans” from their posts,” the official report of the High Commissioner’s office emphasizes. “Many of the dismissed were without pension rights. Most of them were unable to obtain alternative employment. Some were denied access to libraries and laboratories. Those of them who were Jews saw their race become an object of contempt and their children faced with a future of either open or indirect persecution.”
REVIEW PLIGHT OF EXILES
Describing the plight of the German Jewish scientists in exile, the report states:
“Noble prize winners, scientists of international reputation, men and women who have devoted years of loyal service to their universities became wandering scholars, together with their young assistants. Many were at first able
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