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		photochemsyn on July 27, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Göttingen was one of the most productive centers o... It's a bit amusing that the article stops with the 1930s exodus and entirely ignores the 1940s exodus to the USA organized by US intelligence agencies under Operation Paperclip. It's true not many of this latter group were involved in pure mathematics, I suppose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

kmoser on July 28, 2024 [–]

Operation Paperclip doesn't seem to have been specific to Göttingen so it's only tangentially related to the topic.

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