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Article: Trigger of history.(Commentary)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 31, 1999
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Time magazine has an- nounced its selection of Albert Einstein as "the person of the 20th century." Close, but no cigar.
The person of the century should be the individual whose actions most strongly influenced the century, for good or ill. Arguably, there is another without whose most precipitate deeds the United States might never have needed to provide a refuge for Einstein or taken a military interest in his theoretical work in physics.
Would that most influential person be Adolf Hitler? No, for there is yet another person without whose actions Hitler's rise to power and persecution of Germany's Jews, of which Einstein was one, might have proved ...