Albert Einstein Denounces “Hitler-Insanity” In Letter Up For Auction

It “completely ruined the lives of all those around me.”

Princeton, New Jersey: Physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955), seated in book-filled office. (Getty Images)
Princeton, New Jersey: Physicist Albert Einstein (1879-1955), seated in book-filled office. (Getty Images)

Letters written by genius scientific mind Albert Einstein about the rise of “Hitler-insanity” are going up for auction by Nate D. Sanders on Thursday.

Other letters include in the auction detail the late physicist’s request for his first wife to send money to help care for his son’s schizophrenia as he has been restricting himself “in the most extreme way” just to make ends meet, CNN reports.

Einstein wrote to his sister Maja Winteler-Einstein in 1921 revealing he had declined a trip to Munich, for his own safety, as anti-Semitism was sweeping the German city.

“All this is the result of the Hitler-insanity, which has completely ruined the lives of all those around me,” Einstein wrote.

Just three months before World World II broke out, the scientist wrote to Dr. Maurice Lenz about the persecution of the Jews: “The power of resistance which has enabled the Jewish people to survive for thousands of years has been based to a large extent on traditions of mutual helpfulness,” he said in the 1939 letter. “We have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity and our knowledge that the cause for which we are suffering is a momentous and sacred cause.”

If you’d like to snatch up the historic correspondence, bidding on the letters begins at $12,000.

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