After reading Physics and National Socialism, it became more apparent to me that the German scientific community of the Nazi era placed different emphasis on theoretical vs. experimental physics. Leading German physicists viewed theoretical physics merely as that of “Jewish” science and considered it to not hold the same weight as of experimental physics or “German” physics. The readings made apparent the high level of anti-Semitism that was present even among the educated German scientific community which I erroneously assumed, for reasons I do not know why, would be apolitical and would not subscribe to the same hateful rhetoric of the Nazi German government. German physicists such as Philipp Lenard frequently discredited the work of Jewish
