See also a map of the career paths of every physics Nobel laureate. The unlikely haven for 1930s German scientists.The scientific exodus from Nazi Germany.Read the rest of our series on displaced German scientists. The extraordinary intellectual exodus would have tremendous implications for not only Germany but also the countries that took in the refugees. The Nazi regime pushed out leading researchers such as Albert Einstein, Hans Krebs, and even national hero Fritz Haber, who had helped develop chemical weapons during World War I. Over the next several years, hundreds of German scientists and other intellectuals would flee to the UK, the US, and dozens of other countries to protect their livelihoods and their lives. Thousands of people lost their jobs as teachers, judges, police officers-and academics at the country’s top universities. With some exceptions, none of which lasted for long, the 7 April 1933 law ordered that those in government positions who had at least one Jewish grandparent or were political opponents of the Nazi Party be immediately dismissed.
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Two months after Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor, the German government issued the Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums-the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. Credit: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Aristid V. Half of the people in the photo were listed as displaced in the 1930s. Left to right: Hertha Sponer, Albert Einstein, Hugo Grotrian, Ingrid Franck, Wilhelm Westphal, James Franck, Otto von Bayer, Lise Meitner, Peter Pringsheim, Fritz Haber, Gustav Hertz, and Otto Hahn gather at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin in 1921.
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