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The Prussian Academy of Sciences heard with indignation from the
newspapers of Albert Einstein's participation in atrocity-mongering in
France and America. It immediately demanded an explanation. In the meantime
Einstein has announced his withdrawal from the Academy, giving as his reason
that he cannot continue to serve the Prussian State under its present
Government. Being a Swiss citizen, he also, it seems, intends to resign the
Prussian nationality which he acquired in 1913 simply by becoming a full
member of the Academy.

The Prussian Academy of Sciences is particularly distressed by
Einstein's activities as an agitator in foreign countries, as it and its
members have always felt themselves bound by the closest ties to the
Prussian State and, while abstaining strictly from all political
partisanship, have alwa58 stressed and remained faithful to the national
idea. It has, therefore, no reason to regret Einstein's withdrawal.

Prof. Dr. Ernst Heymann, Perpetual Secretary. Le Coq, near Ostende,
April 5, 1933

To the Prussian Academy of Sciences,

I have received information from a thoroughly reliable source
that the Academy of Sciences has spoken in an official statement
of "Einstein's participation in atrocity-mongering in America and
France."

I hereby declare that I have never taken any part in
atrocity-mongering, and I must add that I have seen nothing of
any such mongering anywhere. In general people have contented
themselves with reproducing and commenting on the official
statements and orders of responsible members of the German
Government, together with the programme for the annihilation of
the German Jews by economic methods.

The statements I have issued to the Press were concerned with
my intention to resign my position in the Academy and renounce
my Prussian citizenship; I gave as my reason for these steps that
I did not wish to live in a country where the individual does not
enjoy equality before the law and freedom to say and teach what
he likes.

Further, I described the present state of affairs in Germany as a
state of psychic distemper in the masses and also made some
remarks about its causes.

In a written document which I allowed the International League
for combating Anti-Semitism to make use of for the purpose of
enlisting support, and which was not intended for the Press at all,
I also called upon all sensible people, who are still faithful to the
ideals of a civilization in peril, to do their utmost to prevent this