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atrocity-mongering in France and America. It immediately demanded
an explanation. In the meantime Einstein has announced
his withdrawal from the Academy, giving as his reason
that he cannot continue to serve the Prussian state under its
present government. Being a Swiss citizen, he also, it seems;
intends to resign the Prussian citizenship which he acquired in
1913 incidental to his becoming a full member of the Academy.
The Prussian Academy of Sciences is particularly distressed
by Einstein's activities as an agitator in foreign countries, as it
and its members have always felt themselves bound by the
closest ties to the Prussian state and, while abstaining strictly
from all political partisanship, have always stressed and remained
faithful to the national idea. It has therefore no reason
to regret Einstein's withdrawal.
For the Prussian Academy of Sciences
(signed) Prof. Dr. Ernst Heymann,
Perpetual Secretary
EINSTEIN'S DECLARATION TO THE ACADEMY
Le Coq, near Ostende. April 5, 1933
I have received information from a thoroughly reliable source
that the Academy of Sciences has spoken in an official statement
of "Albert Einstein's participation in atrocity-mongering in
America and France."
I hereby declare that I have never taken any part in atrocitymongering,
and I must add that I have seen nothing of any
such mongering anywhere. In general, people have contented
themselves with reproducing and commenting on the official
statements and orders of responsible members of the German
government, together with the program for the annihilation of
the German Jews by economic methods.
The statements I have issued to the Press were concerned
with my intention to resign my position in the Academy and
renounce my Prussion citizenship; I gave as my reason for these
steps that I did not wish to live in a country where the individ-