On 13 Apr 2009 at 17:37, [email protected] wrote:

>. Btw,were Hans
> Eysenck and Konrad Lorenz Nazi sympathizers?

This deserves a response, although it's mostly all laid out in Wikipedia.

Eysenck was born in Germany but moved to England because of his strong 
opposition to the Nazis.

Lorenz had a clear Nazi past and some of his writings were slanted to 
support Nazi ideas of racial superiority.  When these disreputable views 
of his were revealed much later, he apologized.  It would have been more 
sincere had he come forward himself to retract them before he was outed.

Ironically, Lorenz's friend and colleague was the Dutch/British 
ethologist Niko Tinbergen. Tinbergen was imprisoned by the Nazis after 
courageously protesting the dismissal from Leiden University of three 
Jewish colleagues. 


Stephen

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