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DID YOU KNOW? There were rumors
that Hitler not only
Hitler put a bounty, wished to drive all Jews
or reward, on Albert’s out of Germany, but
life, offering the equivalent
of $5,000 to anyone who also force them out
found and killed him. of Europe altogether.
There was also a
WANTED
suspicion that Hitler
hoped to one day take
over the entire continent.
All these horrible
possibilities played a big role
in Albert finally deciding to
accept Abraham Flexner’s offer to come to work
in Princeton. The Institute for Advanced
Study was up and running when Albert
finally arrived in October 1933. It is likely
he felt particularly safe there, since they had
already hired many other Jewish scientists
who were fleeing Nazi persecution.
Over the next few years, Albert was offered
other positions at different universities around
the world. He declined them all, however,
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