Shubnikov, Rozenkevich, and Gorskii were shot in alphabetical order on November 8, 9, and 10, 1937.99 Leipunskii was arrested in July 1938 and released a month later. Obreimov, who was arrested in 1938 was released in May 1941, thanks to Kapitsa’s efforts. Weissberg and Houtermans were handed over to the Gestapo shortly after the Soviet–German Pact of August 1939.100 The effect of the purge on the institute was profound: UFTI was greatly weakened, and very far from being the kind of research center its leading members had hoped, some years earlier, that it would become. On the eve of the
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