The Einstein dossiers : science and politics--Einstein's Berlin period with an appendix on Einstein's FBI file /
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- During the Kaiserreich
- Military power and science - "sturdy pillars of Germany's might"
- Einstein's path to Berlin
- World War I
- Einstein's political stance and activism
- Appointment as director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics
- On the board of trustees of the Bureau of Standards
- Upshot
- Einstein in private - not quite private
- During the Weimar Republic
- Boycott of German science
- World renown
- Sponsorship - the Einstein Tower
- The appeal for the "Einstein Donation Fund"
- Donations for the Einstein Tower
- A target for right-wing propaganda and violence
- Emissary and emigre - Einstein's foreign travels
- Reasons and purposes of Albert Einstein's travels abroad
- The first excursions after the war - trips to neutral lands
- The voyage to the United States and England
- Visiting the French, 1922
- Japan, Palestine and Spain
- Sweden and Holland 1923
- South America
- Foreign travels 1929-1933
- Erstwhile Swiss, henceforth Prussian. Einstein's citizenship
- Einstein's membership in the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation
- The founding of the Committee
- Einstein's appointment to the committee
- Withdrawal of membership and retraction
- Einstein's collaboration
- Einstein's position - an object of desire. Einstein's deputy
- Einstein's confession
- The end of Einstein's collaboration - this time irrevocably
- Albert Einstein/Sigmund Freud: Why war?
- Parting ways. Einstein and the end of the Weimar Republic
- Apparently "more tranquil and undisturbed" - Einstein's summer villa
- Social milieu. Friends and acquaintance
- Political developments: Republic moves to the right, Einstein to the left
- The Third Reich
- Shouts of triumph by a band of murderers
- Resignation from the Academy of Sciences
- Expatriation
- Confiscations
- Bank account
- Summer villa
- Sailboat
- Any help from Switzerland?
- Einstein's FBI file - reports on Albert Einstein's Berlin period
- Fact, fiction and lies
- Streets, places. Einstein's apartment
- Institutions. The Club of Intellectual Workers
- Persons: Richard Grosskopf/Helen Dukas
- What about Einstein himself?
- The Informant.