EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. A very fine letter, dated the day before the surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allies. T.L.S., `Albert Einstein´, one page, 4to, Princeton, 7<sup>th</sup> May 1945, in English. The letter bears the printed heading of The Institute for Advanced Study, School of Mathematics, Princeton, New Jersey. Einstein, to whom it may concern, recommends a Physician he knows since his time in Germany, stating `Doctor Joseph Castel is well known to me as the elder son of an intimate friend of mine. I have known him in Germany but am also well informed about his life after 1933 and about his activities. I know that he is politically reliable and devoted to the cause of the United Nations. Dr. Castel is an intelligent and practical man and an able physician. I should be glad if he would be offered the opportunity to render useful service´ Beneath Einstein´s signature, the typed text `Professor Albert Einstein´. Paper with a Chieftain Bond watermark. Overall creasing, with a very small tear to the right edge and a trace of a former staple to the upper left corner. About G

 

The letter is dated only few days after Hitler committed suicide and the day before the Nazi Germany surrendered and signed the unconditional surrender document, signed at Berlin on the 8^th May 1945. A curious coincidence considering that Einstein had to go into exile to US as refugee, leaving his own country and university and escaped from the Nazi Germany twelve years before in 1933 when first laws against Jews were approved by Adolf Hitler.