Did The Nazis Have Any Plans For Albert Einstein?

Albert Einstein was in America when the Nazis came to power in 1933, and since e was Jewish, he of course couldn't go back to his homeland. He would later renounce his German Citizenship and the Nazis confiscated his property. What I was wondering, does anyone know if the Nazis had any plans for what to do with Einstein if he'd happen to be on German soil when they came to power, or were perhaps able to capture him or have him turned over to them?

Anyone know or have any ideas?
 
Probably the same as any other Jew. I forget her name, but one top German Jewish scientist ended up dying in the concentration camps who might have helped with the A-Bomb.

I think Einstein would have escaped early on though.
 
Did The Nazis Have Any Plans For Albert Einstein?

yes only one: KILL HIM !

The NAZI government released 1933 a list of enemies of Germany
Einstein was on the list with notice "not yet hanged", offering a $5,000 bounty on his head

because he was Jew, Einstein's works was forbidden
His books were frist to go into Nazi book burnings,
with Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels proclaiming, "Jewish intellectualism is dead."

German scientist were forbidden to use the theory of relativity, only to use Newton mechanic !
This damage allot the Nazi Atom bomb program, what is a good thing
 
Yes

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The Nazis, as a rule, disliked advanced physics, calling it 'Jewish Science', preferring to stick to metalurgy, mechanics and pseudoscience (aka magic).
 
While Einstein, like other "prominent" Jews might have been on a special "list", the reality is that the Nazis planned to kill all Jews, young and old, smart and dumb, prominent and obscure in every territory which they controlled. There were some instances where Jews or Mischlinhgs (those of 1/2 to 1/8 Jewish ancestry) were made "aryans' by fiat this was extremely rare.

The racial extermination process formalized after the Wansee Conference in early 1942 was quite clear in its goals. In their push to exterminate the Jews the Nazis were, in general, extremely wasteful of the human resources of the Jews and such slave labor that they were used for was mostly internal in the camps or very low level. Programs such as the use of certain skilled artisans in an attempt to counterfeit US & British currency were exceptions and small. The point of this is that potentially "useful" highly skilled individuals like Einstein were rarely employed even as slave labor in their area of expertise, of course Einstein's views on war and politics made him even more of a candidate for immediate extermination.
 
I think people have a tendency to overestimate Albert Einstein's abilities as a scientist when asking questions like this. Albert Einstein certainly was a brilliant mathematician and physicist, but he was not Gyro Gearloose, and the world does not work in such a way that there are villains who kidnap single supersmart scientists and then have them produce you a new doomsday device every Wednesday for a couple of years.

I mean, Einstein had long ceased to be one of the driving forces behind quantum mechanics by the time the Nazis came to power, he was more focused on exploring General Relativity and classical approached to unified field theories by that point. It's doubtful he would have been particularly helpful to the Nazis if they wanted to build an atomic weapon. I mean, Einstein was very eager to see the Americans beat the Nazis in the race to build an atomic bomb, hence the Einstein-Szilárd letter, but he never requested to play any role in the Manhattan Project, nor does it seem the government actually sought to recruit him for the task.
 
I think people have a tendency to overestimate Albert Einstein's abilities as a scientist when asking questions like this. Albert Einstein certainly was a brilliant mathematician and physicist, but he was not Gyro Gearloose, and the world does not work in such a way that there are villains who kidnap single supersmart scientists and then have them produce you a new doomsday device every Wednesday for a couple of years.

Einstein was not Gyro Gearloose, but Einstein write this impressive Letter
to US President Roosevelt urging Hin to start the US Atomic Bomb program.
so he gave the World a doomsday device on Sunday July 16, 1945...
 

Realpolitik

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I'm pretty sure that he was high on the Nazi "Enemy List". I remember that he was described as not yet hanged by one Nazi paper.
 
Einstein was not Gyro Gearloose, but Einstein write this impressive Letter
to US President Roosevelt urging Hin to start the US Atomic Bomb program.
so he gave the World a doomsday device on Sunday July 16, 1945...

I know. If you re-read the post you're quoting, you see that I even reference it by name:

I mean, Einstein had long ceased to be one of the driving forces behind quantum mechanics by the time the Nazis came to power, he was more focused on exploring General Relativity and classical approached to unified field theories by that point. It's doubtful he would have been particularly helpful to the Nazis if they wanted to build an atomic weapon. I mean, Einstein was very eager to see the Americans beat the Nazis in the race to build an atomic bomb, hence the Einstein-Szilárd letter, but he never requested to play any role in the Manhattan Project, nor does it seem the government actually sought to recruit him for the task.

Einstein basically only said "Sir, I think we ought to worry about the Nazis getting a nuclear arsenal" and then it was hundreds of men and women involved in the Manhattan Project that actually gave us the doomsday device.

Einstein gave us the nuclear bomb as much as the guy who said "Hey, William, maybe you should have a look at this Saxo Grammaticus' Deeds of the Danes? Might get some inspiration..." gave us Hamlet.
 

Cook

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Einstein's high international profile would have protected him, is it did Sigmund Freud, however he would have been dismissed from the German Academy of Science with the introduction of the Nuremburg Race Laws in 1935. It is important to note that, prior to the race laws, the only Jews being detained by the Nazis were detained for reasons other than their race; they were Socialists, Communists, trade unionists or outspoken critics of the regime. Jews sent to concentration camps between 1935 and the outbreak of the war were sent only for a matter of weeks or months, as a means of terrifying them into signing over their property to a German owner and fleeing the Reich, and as stated earlier; Einstein's international profile would have ruled that out: until 1938 the regime was very sensitive to international criticism.

Lise Meitner, the Austrian Jewish (by race: she'd been baptised a protestant prior to the rise of the Nazis) chemist and pioneering physicist had continued working at the University of Berlin right through until March 1938, protected by her Austrian passport. Following the Anschluss however, she was dismissed from the university. Despite Himmler declaring it undesirable for well known Jewish scientists to leave Germany in 1938 (because they were likely to spread anti-Nazi propaganda abroad), Meitner was still able to obtain a German passport (to replace her now defunct Austrian one) and leave Germany via Holland in July 1938.

If Einstein had been unwise enough to remain in Germany until the outbreak of war in September 1939, he would have been very unlikely to have been able to leave afterwards. Unlikely but not impossible as there were still routes out of Germany for Jews through until mid-1940, after which his fate would have been sealed.
 
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