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but recall that what really sets them apart is proactive aggression – the cool-headed, goal-directed kind of aggression, the seeking-out-vulnerable-women-to-rape-and-murder kind.
The Fear Factor
Abigail Marsh
Hahn knew people who took their own lives to avoid deportation, including the widow of Heinrich Rubens, who had been professor of experimental physics when Hahn first came to Berlin.73 Another was the physicist Arnold Berliner, who had founded the ... journal Naturwissenschaften and edited it for twenty-three years. By 1941 he was confined to his apartment, unwilling to go out wearing the Jewish star, ill and nearly blind; Max von Laue visited him every week. In March 1942 Berliner was ordered to vacate his apartment, a prelude to deportation. He took poison on the night of March 22–23. His ashes were interred a week later, with Hahn and Laue among the few who attended the brief ceremony.
The Politics of Memory: Otto Hahn and the Third Reich
Ruth Lewin Sime
.Pariser Pestgutachten' (1348), wo sie über das ,Pesthauch'-Konzept die Grundlage für die osmotische Repellens-Pestprophylaxe lieferte; 1495 wurde sie auf die Pandemie der —> Frambösie angewandt, und galt noch Mitte des 19. Jh. als Modell zur Erklärung epidemischer Krkh. (M. entstünden, wo zu viele Menschen mit ihrem Unrat auf zu engem Raum lebten).
Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte
Werner E. Gerabek
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