Einstein on Race and Racism Quotes

“Race prejudice has unfortunately become an American tradition which is uncritically handed down from one generation to the next," Einstein declared.”
― Fred Jerome, Einstein on Race and Racism

“the FBI chief also held secret talks with congressional isolationists whose campaigns received covert contributions from the German government and who did their utmost to keep the United States out of the antifascist war.”
― Fred Jerome, Einstein on Race and Racism

“Before the war, Hoover had maintained a number of friendly ties with Hitler's police officials. Among other examples, he sent Hitler's Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler a personal invitation to attend the 1937 World Police Conference in Montreal. The following year, he welcomed one of Himmler's top aides to the United States, and we now know that after the war he embraced "former" Nazis into his Red-hunting FBI apparatus.”
― Fred Jerome, Einstein on Race and Racism

“Nazi street gangs launched increasingly violent attacks against Hitler's enemies, especially leftists and Jews. As one historian put it, "To ready the ground for the Nazi rise to ultimate power, the party raised the level of violence witnessed by ordinary Germans with each passing month.”
― Fred Jerome, Einstein on Race and Racism