Einstein's risky Belgian stay after Hitler came to power
De Haan (Belgium) (AFP) - Sitting alone on a bench, legs crossed, Albert Einstein enjoys the tranquillity of a public park in the Belgian coastal resort of De Haan. His bronze statue attracts excited tourists to the town where the famous 1921 Nobel physics laureate sojourned 90 years ago, despite a Nazi secret society putting a price to his head. He never returned to Europe again. It is a relatively unknown episode in the life of the American physicist of German Jewish origin, who was born in 1879 and died in 1955. When Adolf Hitler came to power in early 1933, Einstein, a native of the south...