Deutsche Physik or Aryan physics activists in Germany published pamphlets and textbooks demeaning Einstein. Even Nobel Prize winners- Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark- led campaigns to remove Einstein’s work from the German lexicon, calling it unacceptable “Jewish physics”.
Nazis even blacklisted teachers who taught Einstein’s theories. One person who experienced this was Nobel laureate Werner Heisenberg, who had debated quantum probability with Niels Bohr and Einstein.
Newspaper of the Nazi party, Volkischer Beobachter; the newspaper of the Nazi party, began a smear campaign against Einstein. Many other papers followed suit. One headline read: “Good News of Einstein! He Is Not Coming Back!” The situation had been so dire that a pamphlet even printed his photograph under a collection of enemies of Nazi Germany. Its caption was “Not Yet Hanged.”
Even after the end of the Second World War and the fall of Nazi Germany, Einstein refused to associate with Germany. He declined many German honours as he found it impossible to forgive the Germans for the Holocaust and the loss and trauma incurred by the Jewish community.
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