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).
stib
@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
Dave
@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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