EJECTED FROM GERMANY

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19460, 27 December 1934, Page 10

EJECTED FROM GERMANY

FIVE HUNDRED MEDICAL MEN. ONE IN 'NEW ZEALAND. Among the arrivals at Wellington by ■tlie Rangitata from England, last week was Dr. A. B. Sternberg, recently of Berlin, who has come to settle in New Zealand. Through legislation enacted not so very long ago, Dr. Sternberg, in •common with about five hundred other medical men, found! it necessary lo leave Germany and continue his work in some oilier country. In conversation with a Dominion representative, Dr. Sternberg said that of the five hundred mentioned about a hundred went lo England-, some two hundred to ■Palestine, and the rest to France, Italy, and Switzerland. Some of these men were quite distinguished in their profession, and their services should be valuable to any country in which they ultimately settled. Commenting -upon the settlement in Palestine of Jewish people from all 'parts of the world'-, Dr. Sternberg said that the Zionist movement was progressing satisfactorily, and pictures of the towns which had sprung up as a result of tlie settlements showed a well defined spirit of modernism. The towns were well laid out, with architecture of the very latest kiqd-. Referring -parl'icuarly to tlie seaport, Haifa, Dr. Sternberg staled that this was quite a modern town, a good deal of the architecture of the buildings having been designed by Herr Kaufmann. 'one of Berlin’s most i riiliant architects, who had lo leave Germany because if had been ascertained that lvis great-grandfather was a Jew. Tells His Experiences. Speaking of his own experiences when lie had lo leave Germany, Dr. Sternberg said he found that as lie wished lo practice in the British Empire lie would have to have a British degree, so -lie went to Edinburgh in June, .1933, studied hard and gained his degree. This was necessary despite the fact that he had been tlie sub-chief of the Municipal Hospital for Women’s Diseases in Berlin. It wasdifficult, for when lie first went lo England, he had next to no English at his disposal, but now lie speaks the language quite freely.

“About a hundred. German doctors were studying at Edinburgh when 1 was there,” said Dr. Sternberg. “It seems that under a law some 300 years old, provision was made for taking in students from alien -countries. The examinations were very hard:, but eminently fair, and I left Edinburgh with a great respect for its people and its degree. As l have said, there were about a hundred up for it with rne. How hard: it was may he conveyed by flic fact that of the total number of Germans who sat for the examination forty-four failed.”