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The title of this chapter coincides with the title of the whole book. This is where the lessons learned in the archival research of the Third Reich are applied to problems of today's world, to the problems a scholar faces in his interactions with the state.
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The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality.
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The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1986. The Peace Nobel Prize Committee called Eli Wiesel a “messenger to mankind.”
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S. N. Shchukin, Memoirs about A.P. Chekhov, Russkaya Mysl’ (Russian Thought), band X, 1911.
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Andrei Piontkovsky, О дивный новый ядерный мир (Oh, magical new nuclear word), Radio Freedom, http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/25383195.html
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ETH, Hs652: 12170.
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February 24, 1929 letter to H. Hahn, quoted from [Dal2], p. 651.
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A. Soifer, Charge to the Winners, The 30th Colorado Mathematical Olympiad, May 3, 2013.
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И долго буду тем любезен я народу,
Что чувства добрые я лирой пробуждал,
Что в мой жестокий век восславил я Свободу
И милость к падшим призывал.
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Elie Wiesel, The Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1986.
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Soifer, A. (2015). The Scholar and the State. In: The Scholar and the State: In Search of Van der Waerden. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0712-8_42
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