In 1944, in a message to a bulletin run by Polish Jews in New York, Einstein wrote
In 1944, in a message to a bulletin run by Polish Jews in New York, Einstein wrote
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The Germans as an entire people are responsible for the mass murders and must be punished as a people if there is justice in the world and if the consciousness of collective responsibility in the nations is not to perish from the earth entirely. Behind the Nazi party stands the German people, who elected Hitler after he had in his book [Mein Kampf] and in his speeches made his shameful [genocidal] intentions clear beyond the possibility of misunderstanding.
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The Germans as an entire people are responsible for the mass murders and must be punished as a people if there is justice in the world and if the consciousness of collective responsibility in the nations is not to perish from the earth entirely. Behind the Nazi party stands the German people, who elected Hitler after he had in his book [''Mein Kampf''] and in his speeches made his shameful [genocidal] intentions clear beyond the possibility of misunderstanding.