Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic ManProfessor Hermanns interviewed Einstein in Germany before World War II, and in America after the War. They explored the nature of the cosmic man, but often discussed the horrors of the Holocaust and the implications of the atomic bomb. These verbatim conversations are published for the first time herewith. Einstein and Professor Hermanns knew too well Hitlers visionary goal which was to make men automatons and strict followers of Nazism. Unwilling to succumb to Nazism as well as fulfilling his desire to survive rather than becoming himself a victim of the Holocaust, Einstein fled to America, where he explored the nature of man and mans potential to achieve new heights as human beings. In his candid revelations, Einstein transcends physics and enters into a new sphere of humanismone of a single humanity based on dignity. The theme throughout the four conversations surrounds the issue against a recurrent Anti-Semitism, especially that conducted by the Nazi. |
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Page 47
The German people, however, expect no political responsibility from their rulers.
Their Untertanengeist (servile mind) asks no quetions, because a German is
trained to obey the State rather than his conscience. When I was sixteen and
went to ...
The German people, however, expect no political responsibility from their rulers.
Their Untertanengeist (servile mind) asks no quetions, because a German is
trained to obey the State rather than his conscience. When I was sixteen and
went to ...
Page 48
"I don't believe it's possible to make a German think along democratic lines," ^
Einstein continued. "If he does, the thoughts come from without, never from within
." He chuckled to himself and leaned his armchair back on two legs. "The German
...
"I don't believe it's possible to make a German think along democratic lines," ^
Einstein continued. "If he does, the thoughts come from without, never from within
." He chuckled to himself and leaned his armchair back on two legs. "The German
...
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She was hauled away from her casde in the Harz mountains and, I was told, was
put in a Russian camp, built in reprisal to a German concentration camp where
thousands of Russian soldiers had perished. Later, when her identity was
learned ...
She was hauled away from her casde in the Harz mountains and, I was told, was
put in a Russian camp, built in reprisal to a German concentration camp where
thousands of Russian soldiers had perished. Later, when her identity was
learned ...
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Contents
Dedication | 1 |
The Second Conversation | 35 |
The Third Conversation | 77 |
Copyright | |
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