Word: cleveringa
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Appointed to take Meyers' classes was an Aryan colleague, once his pupil, Professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa, 47. Professor Cleveringa wrote a speech to deliver to Professor Meyers' next class, read it to his wife. "Excellent," said Mevrouw Cleveringa. "Good," said the professor. "This, then, is the way I will speak. But you'd better pack up my suitcase tonight...
Having given copies of his speech to two colleagues, so that they might finish if he were stopped, big, blond Professor Cleveringa marched into class, announced Dr. Meyers' dismissal, added...
When he finished, Leyden's students cheered wildly. Next morning Nazis arrested Professor Cleveringa and sent him to a concentration camp. Instead of bowing, students paraded and shouted in Leyden's streets, raised such a commotion that the Germans closed the university...
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