A letter in the handwriting and signature of Albert Einstein, in which he expresses his views on the difficult developments in Europe Just before the outbreak of World War II, was sent to the journalist Karen Stump Bendiks, friend of the Einstein family, with no mention of a year or place [late 30s]. German.
A letter full of apprehensions about the dark future before the outbreak of World War II, when Nazi Germany became increasingly disastrous. In his letter, Einstein refers to Ms. Stump, who was in Denmark at the time, and lost her job as a journalist in words of encouragement, that she is not alone in her bitter fate, and that the severe unemployment also strikes other countries. And adds that Denmark her place, is a safe place relative to the rest of Europe (which at that time did not seem threatened by the Nazis)
Knowing the intentions of the Germans at that time, he expressed his disappointment that Britain had not actively intervened three years earlier to stop the strengthening of the Axis powers, whose control had grown stronger. In this context, Einstein wrote in a letter to the student of July 14, 1941: "Organized power can be resisted only by Organized power. With all the sorrow, there is no other way."
On the margins of the letter Einstein adds that he is in a picturesque environment, and that he is infused with an unimaginable flood of letters sent to him from various sources.
When Hitler came to power, Einstein was in the midst of a series of lectures in the United Kingdom. A year later, in 1934, the Nazis robbed him of his property, took away his job, and revoked his citizenship. Many countries offered him refuge (including the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel), and Einstein finally decided to immigrate to the United States. When he arrived in the United States, he joined the staff of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he studied until his last days and never returned to Germany. The letter before us was apparently written in its early years in the United States, when the political developments in prewar Europe were well known to him...
[3] pages 13x 18 cm. All in Einstein's handwriting initialed, folding marks, fine condition. [English translation attached].
