The proportion of sackings was particularly high in physics, he said, where 26 per cent of university staff had been dismissed, including 11 Nobel Prize winners, and chemistry, where the figure was 13 per cent. This was gravely undermining German science.
I wonder how clear a line can be drawn between this purging of the best academics (and rigid of those who stayed) and the Germans failing to be first to the atomic bomb. That would be some irony. I know this comes into stories of the war, even the movie Oppenheimer.
