Abstract
Political, racial and religious persecution of scientists are a thing of the present as well as of the past, and have spared neither astrologers nor astronomers. In this century, most of it happened beyond the sphere of activity of an organization like the IAU, but in the late 1930’s the Union was confronted with — and its help was solicited for — two areas of persecution.
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Blaauw, A. (1994). The IAU and Political Persecutions in the 1930’s. In: History of the IAU. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0978-9_6
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