An incident of Heinz Hopf in Karlsruhe, 1939 (Q734100)
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An incident of Heinz Hopf in Karlsruhe, 1939 (English)
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19 October 2009
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The paper is devoted to the history of the detention of Heinz Hopf, professor of mathematics (algebraic topology) at the ETH in Zürich on January 9th, 1939. He was a ``Halbjude'' - in the jargon of nazism. The paper is based mainly on materials from the archive of the library of ETH. This is a contribution to the history of German mathematics during the nazism.
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Hopf
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Zürich
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nazism
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