Hitler kept Einstein’s head priced and the family chewed

After winning the election, we saw that US President Donald Trump had made personal issues extraordinarily politically political.

On a daily basis, he took retaliation against his political opponents.

He signed a presidential decree under which all the legal firms withdrew the federal security clearance that worked against them in the past.

When Zelaninski dared to disagree with them in the White House, Trump cut Ukrainian military aid.

Similarly, he got Generalmark. He became General Mark, the security of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

Trump’s continued political revenge strategy has created a lot of fear in American politics and the business world, which has led to the challenge of self -control.

Trump has now taken the target of educational circles. He threatened Columbia University that if he did not hand over one from the educational sectors to ‘overseas caretaker’, $ 40 million would be stopped.

He handed over Robert Kennedy Jr. Junior, who has long been criticized by the scientific community due to anti -vaccine stance, heads to the Department of Health and Human Services.

The Trump administration then withheld billions of dollars of funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Matters have become so serious that on March 31, 1900 prominent researchers wrote an open letter accusing the Trump administration of ‘attacking American science’.

These attacks are not limited to the United States. In the present era, such campaigns against experts can also be seen in countries like Russia, Turkey and Hungary.

But history suggests that political revenge does not take long to take violent and the consequences can be disastrous.

In 1989, Iran’s Khamenei issued a fatwa for the assassination of author Salman Rushdie.

Experts are often silenced by authoritarian rulers, especially in the educational and scientific world. In my latest book I examine a very serious example of this.

Adolf Hitler’s retaliation campaign against the then most famous scientist Albert Einstein.

Hitler found the worst retaliation against him in the political, the arts and the scientific world, and Einstein became a major target.

When Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Einstein had won the Nobel Prize and touched his scientific discoveries, including the famous equality E = MCB, globally.

In the same year a booklet was published in Germany, titled Juden Sehen Dich an, ‘Jews are watching you’. The booklet was published with the approval of Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebels.

It included the biography of some of the leading Jews in Germany, including two pages and two photos on Albert Einstein. A word unghehängt was printed with each name, which means ‘not yet hanged.’

It was not an empty threat. On August 30, 1933, the German Jewish philosopher Theodore Lusung, whose name was included in the booklet, was shot dead by two Nazis in his apartment in the Czechoslovakia city of Marian Bed (today’s Czech Republic’s Marnske Lazar).

It was the first of the early cases of Nazi political assassination outside the German borders.

News of the murder of Lesing has been significantly published worldwide. They also included The New York Times, which published this news on its front page.

The headline was ‘Lusing, German refugees, killing in Prague, attacks on other people abroad.’

A week after Lusung’s murder, Einstein learned that the Nazis also added his name to the hit list. Newspapers all over Europe reported on the front page that Hitler wants to kill this famous scientist.

The Daily Tribune, published from London, published the news with this headline: Einstein’s head priced.

The newspaper even told how much money was kept for the murder, £ 1,000, which is more than £ 4 million today.

For fear of John, Einstein turned to the UK by boat and stayed in East Anglia, eastern Britain.

In the desire to not look frightened, he allowed photographers to take pictures of them in which they appear to be hiding.

Reading the book on a chair, while two people are guarding the guns nearby.

Later, he left for the United States by another boat with his wife Elsa and resided in a house in Princeton, New Jersey.

Over the next decade, Hitler repeatedly ordered retaliation against his opponents. In June 1934, he launched a retaliation on the SA (Nazi paramilitary organization), which he was suspected of loyalty.

The title was later called the Night of the Long Nose, in which at least 80 people were hanged. They included SA chief Ernest Rome.

After 10 years, after trying to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944, he chose even more bloody revenge to teach opponents a lesson. A lesson that they cannot forget soon.

Colonel Claus Fan Shatafinburg led a conspiracy against Hitler with the help of several military colleagues. Hitler arrested him and killed him.

His brother Barthold, who was involved in the conspiracy, was also hanged, but revenge did not end here.

The wife of Schftapanburg was deported to the Revenue Brook’s detention camp. Their children were imprisoned in special centers and several of their adult relatives were also arrested and deported.

The families of other conspirators suffered similar punishments.

From the Middle Ages, a term in German was introduced in Sippenhaft, which meant to punish the crime or act of a family member to the whole family, that is, the responsibility of kinship.

Despite 11 years in power, Hitler’s thirst for revenge remained intact. Einstein was still on the top of Hitler’s hit list.

His repeated criticism in US newspapers against the Nazi government has further incited Hitler’s hatred.

What made the situation serious was that Einstein auctioned his famous scientific drafts to raise funds for the US war campaign, and did all this in public.

At the same time, he was also providing his scientific skills to the US military.

Einstein was now a permanent residence in Princeon, New Jersey, at a sea distance from SS and Gustapo. His close family was also out of the reach of the Nazi government.

His wife Elsa, step daughter Margate, sister Maja and older son Hans Albert were all safe in the United States, while their first wife Milwa and younger son Edward were based in Switzerland.

However, Einstein, a close friend of Einstein, was still present in the Nazis occupied by Robert Einstein.

Robert and Albert were the cousins ​​of each other. He grew up in the German city of Munich and stayed in the same house for 11 years. Their relationships were like brothers.

His father, Herman and Jacob Einstein operated a joint business in Munich in the 1880s. He used to provide electricity to beer halls, town squares and cafes.

Initially, the business was successful, but when they tried to expand it excessively and a large contract went out of hand and they went bankrupt.

The Einstein family moved to Milan and started business again, but the company failed again. After that the two families were separated. Herman stayed in Milan while Jacob turned to Geneva.

When Albert moved to Germany and soon began to recognize, Robert stayed in Italy, where he completed his engineering education and married an Italian woman.

He resided in a beautiful villa with his two daughters and three nephews. There they used to do business in a rural area filled with grape bulls, olive trees and peaches.

Like his famous cousin, Robert was a scientific mood but he was not well known. Local pastors, shopkeepers and some close farmers knew where they lived.

Mostly they quietly handle their land and refrain from confusing anyone.

This was the place where he was based in August 1944, when the Nazi command was ordered to find them so that they could be punished for opposition by Albert Einstein.

Since Einstein caused severe damage to the Nazi government and if he could not kill this famous scientist in the world, he would have taken the next step, that is, targeting his cousin in Italy.

But when the German army’s heavy weapons arrived at Robert’s house on August 3, 1944, they did not find them there. They brutally killed his wife and both daughters, Lacha and Chechi,.

A few weeks later, Albert received a letter in which he was informed of the tragedy of his Italian family.

It is not known how they reacted to this because there was no record left about it.

However, it is definitely known how his sister Maja felt. She lived with Albert when it was reported.

He said the tragedy began to cause his nightmares and he felt himself ‘defeated’.

This is the story I narrate in my book The Constitution Einstein Windta. This is the revelation of the dark truth on how political enmity can turn into a personal revenge.

This is a warning for today. The warning of the terror that the authoritarian governments are caused by the authoritarian governments when they are not stopped.

Whether it was the death of Alexei Navalni, the opponent of Vladimir Putin, who died after ‘walking’ in the Arctic’s ‘Polar Wolf’ prison.

He was serving a 30 -year imprisonment here or an attack on a scriple family that was paralyzed by poisoning the nervous system in 2018, in which he barely survived. Opposition to the Russian president has become a life -threatening threat.

Disagreements in other places may not be lost, but we have certainly seen that they can lose their job and freedom.

Once this series begins, it is extremely difficult to stop this cycle of revenge.

Revenge can take the form of violent retaliation and it is not limited to Russia.

Salman Rushdie attack with a knife, several attempts to assassinate Donald Trump and attack on the US capital. These are three recent examples.

That is why the story of targeting members of the Einstein family should never be forgotten.

Thomas Harding’s book ‘The Einstein Wandita’ has been published. The book was published by Penguin Michael Joseph. It costs 22 pounds.

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