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There is an apocryphal story connected with that trip, that during it they visited an observatory, where Mrs. Einstein was watching someone peer into one of the large telescopes. “What are you doing?”, she asked. “Exploring the heavens”, was the reply. “Oh”, she said, “my husband does that with a piece of paper and and a pencil”.
Interesting detail in that 1933 declaration form. Einstein moved to the U.S. from (British) Bermuda? Was he there for long?
I didn’t think he spent much time in between departure from Germany and moving to the U.S. East Coast.
Yeah, I wasn’t sure about that either. I think he was briefly in Belgium and did spend a short time in the UK. Those I know. He went to Belgium from the USA and renounced his German citizenship there. All I can figure is maybe he stopped in Bermuda on the ship back to the USA and for whatever immigration/status type reason that had to be listed as his last foreign place of residence of where he was directly coming from.
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