Janna Levin
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Americans weren't fleeing to Nazi Germany. They came here and they were motivated. It's more than a patriotism. I mean, it was a patriotism, obviously, but it was sort of more than that. It was really understanding the threat of Europe, what was going on in Europe, and how quickly it turned.
Americans weren't fleeing to Nazi Germany. They came here and they were motivated. It's more than a patriotism. I mean, it was a patriotism, obviously, but it was sort of more than that. It was really understanding the threat of Europe, what was going on in Europe, and how quickly it turned.
How quickly this free-spirited Berlin culture, you know, was suddenly in this repressive and terrifying regime. So I think that it was a much higher chance that it happened here in America.
How quickly this free-spirited Berlin culture, you know, was suddenly in this repressive and terrifying regime. So I think that it was a much higher chance that it happened here in America.
How quickly this free-spirited Berlin culture, you know, was suddenly in this repressive and terrifying regime. So I think that it was a much higher chance that it happened here in America.
Absolutely, the world flocked here, and that won't be the case if we no longer have intellectual freedom.
Absolutely, the world flocked here, and that won't be the case if we no longer have intellectual freedom.
Absolutely, the world flocked here, and that won't be the case if we no longer have intellectual freedom.
Oh, yeah. I don't have the number, but it's disproportionately so. In fact, a lot of them from particle physics came from the Bronx. And they were European immigrants.
Oh, yeah. I don't have the number, but it's disproportionately so. In fact, a lot of them from particle physics came from the Bronx. And they were European immigrants.
Oh, yeah. I don't have the number, but it's disproportionately so. In fact, a lot of them from particle physics came from the Bronx. And they were European immigrants.
They fled Europe precisely because of the geopolitics we're describing. And so instead of being Nobel Prize winners from the Soviet Union or from the Eastern Bloc, they were from the Bronx. Yes.
They fled Europe precisely because of the geopolitics we're describing. And so instead of being Nobel Prize winners from the Soviet Union or from the Eastern Bloc, they were from the Bronx. Yes.
They fled Europe precisely because of the geopolitics we're describing. And so instead of being Nobel Prize winners from the Soviet Union or from the Eastern Bloc, they were from the Bronx. Yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The star is collapsing.
The star is collapsing.
The star is collapsing.