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    Stephen Sekula (steve@mastodon.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 12:10:55 JST Stephen Sekula Stephen Sekula

    A key lesson from just prior to the outbreak of World War II is that countries that open their doors to scientists threatened in their home countries solve two problems at once: they protect human lives while securing their own nation’s scientific future.

    Historically, the most successful strategies were combinations of local and national efforts (e.g., universities inviting visiting positions combined with immigration paths).

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      stib (stib@aus.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 19:42:13 JST stib stib
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      @steve it's important to mention that these nations weren't solely motivated by high ideals. Scientists from Germany were also welcomed to countries like the US and Australia *after* the war. These weren't the ones fleeing from the nazis though, these were the ones that had been at least happy to work for the nazis, or actual nazis themselves. In Australia it was called the Employment of Scientific and Technical Enemy Aliens Scheme, but the same thing went on in Britain and the US, famously in the case of Werner Von Braun.
      https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.1080/0810902021000023327

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        The Employment of German Scientists in Australia after World War II
        Soon after the end of World War II the Australian Government brought scientists of defeated Germany to Australia. They were to work in government institutions and private industry to contribute their expertise to improving Australian science and to improving Australia's industrial efficiency. The Allied powers occupying Germany were engaged in a scramble to appropriate German expertise for the next phase of the arms race. The Australian Employment of Scientific and Technical Enemy Aliens Scheme (ESTEA) instead channeled its personnel to basic science and industrial research. The personnel were part human reparations, part invited experts. This curious scheme offers insight into attitudes towards industrial regeneration in a previous era, and the importance of context in shaping attempts to alter existing scientific and industrial cultures.
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      Dave (daveosaurus@mastodon.nz)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 19:47:13 JST Dave Dave
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      @steve A few years back there was an infographic about totalitarianism doing the rounds, citing Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance.

      Karl Popper survived World War II by getting a job in New Zealand, where he wrote "The Open Society and its Enemies" while working at Canterbury University (then the Canterbury University College).

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