ICM98-CL30 (98/07/15): Berlin mathematicians under the Nazi regime
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INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS
Berlin, Germany, August 18 - 27, 1998
30th Circular Letter
Subject: ICM98-CL30: Berlin mathematicians under the Nazi regime
Dear colleague:
The following is an announcement of the Deutsche Mathematiker-
Vereinigung (DMV) about its activities during ICM'98 to honour
the memory of the victims of Nazi terror:
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Terror and Exile
Berlin mathematicians under the Nazi regime 1933 - 1945
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In 1998, the ICM returns to Germany after an intermission of 94 years.
This long interval covers the darkest period in German history.
Therefore, the DMV wants to honour the memory of all those who suffered
under the Nazi terror. We shall do this in the form of an exhibition
presenting the biographies of 53 mathematicians from Berlin who were
victims of the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. The fate of this
small group illustrates painfully well the personal sufferings and the
destruction of scientific and cultural life; it also sheds some light
on the instruments of suppression and the mechanisms of collaboration.
The exhibition will take place in the central atrium of the main
building of TU (Lichthof), on the second floor. It will be opened
on August 19, at 12:15 by Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, president of the DMV.
Special Session
Mathematics in the Third Reich and Racial and Political Persecution
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In addition, there will be a special session entitled "Mathematics
in the Third Reich and Racial and Political Persecution" on
August 25, 14:00 - 15:45 (in Room MA 004 of the TU Math Building)
with two talks given by Joel Lebowitz (Rutgers University)
"Victims, Oppressors, Activists, and Bystanders: Scientist's Response
to Racial and Political Persecution" and Herbert Mehrtens (Technische
Hochschule Braunschweig) "Mathematics and Mathematicians in Nazi
Germany. History and Memory" and a discussion chaired by Jochen
Bruening (HU Berlin).
Also in connection with this program and in addition to the official
tourist sight-seeing program of the Congress, we offer guided tours to
sites of historic and reviving Jewish life in Berlin and to historic
places of special political interest. We recommend the tours
"Paths to the Jewish Berlin", "Fascism: The Pathos of Power",
and "Gedenkstaette Deutscher Widerstand". Please consult the
homepage of the ICM'98 Footloose Tours at URL
http://elib.zib.de/ICM98/E/5#Footloose7
for details.
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Sincerely
Martin Groetschel
President of the ICM'98 Organizing Committee
P.S. The schedule of the scientific program of ICM'98 is now
also available on the WWW server. On the title page click
on "scientific" to reach Section "B. Scientific Program".
http://elib.zib.de/ICM98/B/
Below the headline "Schedule of Events" you will find three
links:
- "Scientific Program" is the on-line version. It always gives
the most recent schedule and offers cross-references to the
data of speaker, abstract, location, and chairperson.
On its front page you may choose to view the schedule
day by day (by selecting a day and clicking on "Show all
Sections") or section-wise (select a section by clicking on
the respective button, then click on "Show Section Program").
The section-wise mode offers some additional filter options.
- In "Day by Day Overview" you will find the postscript and
dvi files of the printed schedule, split into days and
into the subsections of each day for selective printing.
- "Schedule of Sections" offers the postscript and dvi files
of each section.
Finally, the postscript and dvi file of the complete schedule
can be retrieved directly below these three links.
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