"ARYAN" IDEAS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1937, Page 14

"ARYAN" IDEAS.

NAZI SCIENCE ATTITUDE.

WARS UN "JEWISH SPIRIT." MUNICH. Attacks on tlie "Jewish spirit" in science assumed sharper form in Research Depart uiont addressee read hoie. Prominent among the anti-Semitic critics was Philip Lenard, 74-year-old Nobel prize winner, whose paper, read in his absence. purported to show that Jews "since Wilhelm ll.'s period of decadence" had systematically attempted to appropriate and pass off the products of "Aryan" brains as their own. The address charged that this "trick" was especially apparent in physics, as shown bv tho fact that most Nobel prizes in physios had been won by Jews and "Semitically minded persons."

Professor Rudolf Tomaschek, of Dresden, inveighed against what lie termed "Jewish abstract formalism." as exemplified by Einstein's theory of relutivity.

In another channel of anti-Jewish criticism, Professor Herbert Meyer, of fioettingen University, dwelt on existin? "Talmud-inspired" laws affecting stolen property, which, he said, protected the receivers of stolen goods. He said that the receivers for eight centuries had been predominantly Jewish fend had caused much racial animosity.