War Diaries (November 4) (nonfiction)
War Diary entries for November 4
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Karl Menger: November 4, 1933
You certainly remember my assistant N., whom I considered as one of my best friends. In fall 1933 he had to go home due to the political tension. ...There he had to join different organizations and had to do a lot of things till, finally, he came under the complete mental influence of this current and, since some months, does, quite spontaneously, more things than he even had to. Considering that such changes are possible after June 30th in young men,98 who certainly may be ranked among the best young scientists of their nation (just recently N. succeeded in proving the triangulation of all manifolds!) my deep personal sorrow is still surpassed by fear as to the future.
- Karl Menger, letter to Oswald Veblen (PDF) - "N" refers to Georg Nöbeling - "June 30" refers to the Night of the Long Knives massacre
George Beck: November 4, 1943
Today Harry Ferrell returned from Lamsdorf in place of the fellow who left. He tells us that my mate Arthur Roberts in now in England amongst the five thousand exchanged prisoners, lucky devil, no doubt he will have been down to see the wife by now. In Lamsdorf the main prison camp an underground tunnel has been found nearly a mile long, bed boards were used as props etc. There is another one but the Germans can’t find it, our engineers have been at work, even electric lights have been put in. There is also a radio in the camp and this can’t be found either, its surprising how clever some of the chaps are. English speaking Germans have been sent out to some camps and dressed in English uniforms and they’ve been found out in some cases. One of the chaps was stoned out.
- Diary of George Beck - 1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war
