#vergessenehelden — Public Fediverse posts
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😱 Er brachte 1600 Gefallene des #ZweitenWeltkriegs zurück – #JuliusErasmus im #Hürtgenwald:
Tief im verwüsteten Hürtgenwald beginnt eine #Geschichte, die bis heute kaum jemand kennt und doch jeden betrifft.
Julius Erasmus, kein Held mit Orden, sondern ein Mann mit Schaufel, Entschlossenheit und Mitgefühl.#JuliusErasmus #Hürtgenwald #WW2Doku #SimplyAdventure #Kriegsgräber #VergesseneHelden #Soldatenfriedhof #Westwall #GeschichteErleben
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… Indeed when I made a pilgrimage to his grave during a 1996 ski vacation in Austria, I discovered that his freethinking didn’t go down well in his home village either: … the small town of Alpbach has buried their most famous citizen ever in a quite modest grave right at the edge of the cemetery.”
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#austria #physics #Österreich #Zivilcourage #VergesseneHelden #NaziWiderstand #IntellectualFreedom #NaziResistance #IntellectualFreedom
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I can’t resist quoting this passage from Max Tegmark's book „Our Mathematical Universe“ (Penguin Books 2014) about the great physicist #ErwinSchrödinger:
„After getting Max Planck’s job as professor in Berlin, one of the most prestigious posts in the world, he gave it up because he wouldn’t tolerate Nazi persecution against his Jewish colleagues. …
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#austria #physics #Österreich #Zivilcourage #VergesseneHelden #NaziWiderstand #IntellectualFreedom #NaziResistance #IntellectualFreedom