On October 1, 1940, alongside his daughter-in-law Margot, Albert Einstein swore allegiance to the flag of the United States in New Jersey. The illustrious physicist has taught there since 1933, when he arrived in the country, at the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton.
Albert Einstein fled the Hitler regime
Born in Germany in 1879, the Nobel Prize winner in physics (1921) fled across the Atlantic after Hitler took power. In his country, this Jewish peace activist was under increasing pressure from the Nazi regime.
Upon his naturalization, Einstein declared to the press: “I am convinced that the United States will prove that democracy is not only a form of governance linked to a good constitution, but a way of life, carried by a people who has a good tradition, a tradition of moral strength, and the fate of the human species today rests more than ever on its moral strength. ”