Albert Einstein Knew about the Threats of Nazi Power Ten Years before They Came into Power

Albert Einstein’s intelligent and sensible nature showed up not only in science but also in everyday matters. His cautiousness helped him steer clear of impending doom.

A handwritten letter by the world’s most famous physicist, discovered in 2018, revealed that he was aware of the rising anti-Jew campaign in Germany before anyone else. In 1922, when Albert Einstein’s close friend Walther Rathenau a Jewish foreign minister, was killed by a right-wing group in Germany, the scientist was forced to disappear. The police informed him that a similar attack was planned against him.

Nobody knew about Einstein when he vanished from Berlin in 1922. During that period, he wrote a letter to his younger sister, Maja, warning her about the thriving anti-Semitic ideas in the country and his concern about rising violence against Jewish people ten years before Hitler conquered Germany. According to reports, the letter, without any return address, was possibly written by the physicist when he was hiding in the port city of Kiel before starting his Asia tour.

The prominent man ultimately fled from Germany when the Nazis came to power in 1933 and lived in the USA until his death in1955.

The letter by Einstein was sold for $39,350 at an auction in Jerusalem.