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Module: Exil: AE in den USA

Sequence: 3.0 Einstein_und_Politik

Slide: Einstein Defends Military Service

Slide: The Policy of Non-Intervention toward the Third Reich

Slide: Einstein Warns about a German Atomic Bomb

Slide: Einstein and Leo Szilard Sign the Letter to Roosevelt

Slide: Leo Szilard (1898–1964)

Slide: Award of an Honorary Doctorate from Lincoln University

Slide: Einstein Presents a Commemorative Book for the Murdered Jews

Slide: Manuscript of an Address to the National Urban League

Slide: Einstein Signs a Proclamation for the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists

Slide: Einstein should become president of Israel

Slide: Einstein Turns Down the Offer to Become President of Israel

Slide: Einstein to William Frauenglass

Slide: Incomplete Manuscript for a Television Broadcast on the Day of Israeli Independence

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Einstein and Leo Szilard Sign the Letter to Roosevelt

Photograph after 1945

The scene from late summer 1939 was reenacted for a film. This was presumably one of the reasons why Einstein’s responsibility for the atomic bomb appeared larger than it actually was.

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