Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun; … - 2021
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From … 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created … networks for emigration decisions. Academics with ties to more colleagues who had emigrated in 1933 or 1934 (early émigrés …