Timeline for Are there any well known mathematicians who were fascists?
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| Sep 29, 2022 at 1:56 | comment | added | user234212323 | Thanks for the clarification | |
| Sep 29, 2022 at 1:56 | history | edited | user234212323 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2022 at 17:34 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | Wikipedia cites Soifer: "After the Nazis seized power, and through World War II, Van der Waerden remained at Leipzig, and passed up opportunities to leave Nazi Germany for Princeton and Utrecht. However, he was critical of the Nazis and refused to give up his Dutch nationality, both of which led to difficulties for him." | |
| Sep 28, 2022 at 17:30 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | I actually read the book by Soifer. The book is van der Waerden biography (this is the reason for writing it). The question of his accusations in collaboration is just one of the topics. The main accusation was that he (a Dutch citizen) was working (doing mathematics) in Germany during the war. There is no evidence whatsoever that he was a "Nazi sympatizer", not speaking of the membership is any Nazi organizations. | |
| Sep 28, 2022 at 14:36 | comment | added | user234212323 | The situation is not as simple as you state. He was not a notorious Nazi, but he played a role, or do you think that writing a whole book about the subject like Soifer's was because it was a simple situation? | |
| Sep 28, 2022 at 2:48 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | Van der Waerden was not a member of Nazi party. His "collaboration" consisted of working in Germany as a math professor. | |
| Sep 26, 2022 at 18:45 | history | answered | user234212323 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |