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2 pp. typescript note of German and Italian mathematicians, listed according to whether they left or remained in their posts before and during World War II, and their political bias. n.d.
The first category, 'German refugee mathematicians', including G. Szegö and H. Heilbronn, gives names, subject speciality, former posts and present whereabouts. Davenport states that all were anti-Nazis.
The second category, 'Mathematicians who stayed in Germany', gives name, pre-war post and extent to which individual was involved in Nazi regime. The third category is 'Collaborators'.
The fourth category, 'Italian mathematicians', from information given by B. Segre (Manchester), gives a list of mathematicians 'dismissed by the Fascists in 1938' and another of anti-fascist mathematicians.
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See Memoir, p.161