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Word: krieck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silence the assembly listened as a Heidelberg professor, Nazi Ernst Krieck, shouted: "We do not recognize or know truth for truth's sake or science for science's sake." Some recalled a letter which had once beckoned Spinoza to his chair at Heidelberg, it read: "You will have the utmost freedom of philosophizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Prosit | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...know or recognize truth for truth's sake or science for science's sake." The author of this statement, Dr. Ernst Krieck, is rector of Heidelberg. Between 1933-38 university enrollment dropped from 200,000 to just over 70,000. A worried military gazette reported: "Cadets show a striking inability to think logically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Handbook for the Lucky | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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