On Auction: Einstein’s Call For War

In a 1936 letter about to go under the hammer at Yerushalayim’s Kedem Auction House, Albert Einstein regrets that England did not attack Germany three years earlier, writing, “There are diseases that cannot be overcome without surgery. I cannot deny this even though I abhor the knife.”

Writing to Danish journalist Karen Stampe Bendix, Einstein mistakenly asserted that her country was “unthreatened by the impending turbulence,” and that “no place on earth is in a better situation.”

Nazi Germany occupied Denmark in April 1940, despite the country’s declaration of neutrality in December 1939.

{Matzav.com Israel}