The “Voelkischer Beobachter” yesterday published an attack upon Professor Albert Einstein, the distinguished scientist, impugning his scientific achievements on the ground that Professor Einstein allegedly once declared: “I am a race-Jew. I want to have nothing to do with Germans.”
“Hundreds of scientists,” says the paper, “are demolishing Einstein’s teachings, but the gullible and superstitious masses continue to believe.”
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