1933 Albert Einstein speech at Royal Albert Hall in protest against Nazi policy

Date: 5th October 1933

Location: LONDON, ENGLAND

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

SLATE INFORMATION: 10,000 hear Einstein

ENGLAND: London: Royal Albert Hall:

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Cheering and clapping crowds SOT

Professor Albert Einstein (Scientist, theoretical physicist) speech SOT

- I am glad that you have me, given the opportunity of expressing to you here my deep sense of gratitude as a man, as a good European and as a Jew

- It cannot be my task today to act as judge of the conduct of a nation, which for many years has considered me as your own

- We are concerned not merely with the technical problem of securing and maintaining peace, but also with the important task of education and enlightenment / Without such reason (?) there would have been no Shakespeare, no Goethe, no Newton, no Pasteur

CUTAWAY Audience listening around hall

Loud applause from crowd around Albert Hall

Ethnic Minorities; Personalities - Intellectuals; Germany; Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Great Britain

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