A severe indictment of German science and culture under Nazi rule is contained in the current issue of Nature, prominent British scientific journal.
Describing how Nazi racial obsessions are undermining the foundations of learning in Germany, the periodical charges that science has been “abolished” and “its spirit has abdicated” there.
The magazine, describing the downfall of Heidelberg University, points out that the university’s catalogue for 1937-38 omits the usual historical survey because it would necessarily include the names of many distinguished Jewish alumni.
Of 215 teachers who held posts in the university in 1932, only 180 remain, the journal states, and of this number but 99 are survivors of the old regime. The majority of those dismissed, it is pointed out, are Jews or related to Jews.
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