Einstein would have been first among the newly unemployed—but he had seen Germany’s fate coming. He and his wife Elsa had left their home in Berlin to tour the United States months before Hitler came to power. “Take a very good look at it. You will never see it again,” Einstein had told Elsa as they left. Once the Nazis took over, Einstein, the most famous Jew in the world, was a marked man. Einstein’s stepdaughter managed to smuggle his papers safely out of his Berlin apartment before the Nazis could destroy them; Hitler’s goons ransacked the apartment four times in three days, but Einstein’s
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