Lise Meitner Quotes
Undoubtedly, to salve your conscience, you have now and then helped some miserable human being, but millions of human beings were murdered and nary a protest was heard.
She and most other German scientist fled from the Nazis—she to Sweden. Hahn, her former collaborator, remained in Germany and worked for the Nazis. The letter was written in the expectation that Moe Berg, an American OSS agent would have it delivered to Hahn in Germany. So far as anyone can tell, it was never delivered but was used by the OSS for analysis of German physics prowess.
Lise Meitner, 1878-1968, German Nuclear Physicist, Letter to Otto Hahn
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Yuliy Osipovich Martov
She was found guilty of treason because she had passed out leaflets criticizing the Nazi regime on a university campus. The non violent resistance tactics were so threatening to the Nazi German regime that Sophia and other members were executed by guillotine beheading as a particularly harsh example. The graphic is a postage stamp that Germany has issued in her honor.
At this point, the horrors of the German concentration death camps were generally known by the world press. This quotation shows the denial that the Irish Free State was in about the German Nazi atrocities. The 6-county Nationalsits were the Irish counties in Northern Ireland that did not join the Irish Free State and so far as the Catholic Irish were concerned, the Catholics of Northern Ireland were a persecuted minority undergoing oppression and that was not they believed morally different from the murders of millions of Jews, Gypsies and handicapped people in Europe. If the Free State Irish publicly admitted the difference, they would morally have had to join the allies and De Valera was totally opposed to that. Over 70,000 Irishmen and women rejected the moral stand of their government, and volunteered for the British Army to the great distress of the Free State leaders like De Valera. See {639722} for his personal denial of reality.
The non-violent resistance tactics of the White Rose were so threatening to the Nazi German regime that Sophia and other members were executed by guillotine beheading as a particularly harsh example. The graphic is a postage stamp that Germany has issued in her honor.
Yuliy Osipovich Martov
This notion of maintaining honor by fighting has led the Arabs down a very destructructive spiral. To avoid thedgling "shame" of accepting the cration of Israel, they invaded the flefgling nation but were beaten back. The Israelis, then, realizing that they were vulnerable, siezed strategic locations from which future attacks might be launched. The Arabs then attacked again, justifying the Israeli policies which the Arabs wanted to reverse. So to avoid this shame, the started another war which they lost and lost even more territory as the Israelis were even more justified in preventing attacks. Finally, to avoid shame, the Arabs again attacked and lost the Sanai Desert, Gaza, The West Bank, the Golan Heights and Jerusalem. Afteer 60 years, many Arabs wanted to stop the crazy spiral and negotiate, but there are many who still want to continue and regain their honor and pride.
The highest court in New York.
Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who contributed to the discoveries of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on radioactivity, she discovered the radioactive isotope protactinium-231 in 1917. In 1938, Meitner and nephew-physicist Otto Robert Frisch discovered nuclear fission. She was praised by Albert Einstein as the "German Marie Curie".
