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Abstract

This chapter shows in a full detail Nazi government’s and Leipzig University administrators’ suspicions about Van der Waerden loyalty to the Nazi regime. It also portrays a certain insensitivity of Camilla van der Waerden toward her father-in-law Dr. Theo van der Waerden.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA70, p. 41.

  2. 2.

    “German Mathematics” as opposed to “Jewish Mathematics.” See [Meh1] for details.

  3. 3.

    Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA70, p. 48.

  4. 4.

    Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA70, p. 45.

  5. 5.

    Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, p. 51.

  6. 6.

    Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, p. 50.

  7. 7.

    Archiv der Max Planck Gesellschaft, Nachlass P. Debye, III Abt., Rep 19, Nr. 842.

  8. 8.

    Prime Minister of the Netherlands Hendrikus Colijn. Indeed, on August 10, 1939 he loses his post.

  9. 9.

    See Chapter 26.

  10. 10.

    [WaT1].

  11. 11.

    Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, p. 53.

  12. 12.

    Universitätsarchiv Leipzig, PA 70, p. 54.

  13. 13.

    Again this race-based Nazi term “German Science.”

  14. 14.

    Constantin Carathéodory (1873–1950), a German mathematician of Greek ancestry, professor of mathematics at Göttingen (1913–1918), Berlin (1918–1920), and Munich (1924–1938).

  15. 15.

    Physicist and astronomer Bruno Jacob Thüring, a Dozent at Munich University at that time, was known for his anti-Semitism and support of the Nazi’s Deutsche Physik doctrine.

  16. 16.

    Thuring was wrong, for as far as we know, Otto Neugebauer was not Jewish.

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Soifer, A. (2015). A Cloud of Suspicion. In: The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_16

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