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Nature 405, 116 (11 May 2000) | doi:10.1038/35012165
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Planck family paid a high price for opposing Hitler
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Your News item "German science starts facing up to its historical amnesia"1 should rivet the attention of the living generation of scientific workers on the tragic descent of broad sections of German science and medicine into the embrace of Hitler and Goebbels.Under the Third Reich, 45 per cent of German physicians became Nazi party members2, and physicists of the rank of Stark and Lenard, together with the world-class mathematician Bieberbach, robustly espoused Nazi doctrine and practice and railed against contamination of the German academy by 'Jewish physics', notably Einstein's special relativity theory3.
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