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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

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