Was Einstein the most ignorant, immoral, stupid, dishonest
plagiarist, subversive, man that ever lived, or are all Jews like that..
Letters written by Albert Einstein to his family have shed light on the
scientist's personal life, including a string of extramarital affairs.
Einstein is known to have had a dozen lovers, two of whom he married,
said Barbara Wolff of the Hebrew University's Albert Einstein Archives.
'Unwanted' attention
The 3,500 pages of correspondence include letters to his first and
second wives and children between the years 1912-1955.
He openly discussed his affairs, saying that women showered him with
"unwanted" attention.
In one 1931 letter to Margot, Einstein complains about one of his
conquests, a
Berlin socialite: "Mrs M" - Ethel Michanowski - "followed me [to
England], and her chasing me is getting out of control.
"Out of all the dames, I am in fact attached only to Mrs L, who is
absolutely harmless and decent."
In another letter to Margot, he asks her to pass on "a little letter for
Margarita [known as his 'Russian spy lover'], to avoid providing curious
eyes with titbits."
The letters deal with a number of other topics:
His Nobel Prize money:
Despite re****ts that Einstein transferred the Nobel Prize money directly
to Switzerland following a divorce agreement in which it was assigned to
his first wife, Mileva, the letters reveal he instead invested the major
part of it in the US, where he settled after being driven out of Nazi
Germany. Much of the money was later lost in the Depression.
His son:
Einstein found his son Eduard's schizophrenia difficult to accept, and
often expresses the idea that it would have been better if Eduard had
not been born.
His stepdaughter:
In a letter to Elsa in 1924, Einstein writes: "I love her [Margot] as
much as if she were my own daughter, perhaps even more so, since who
knows what kind of brat she would have become [had I fathered her].''
Relativity:
In a letter to Elsa in 1921, he says: "Soon I'll be fed up with the
relativity. Even such a thing fades away when one is too involved with
it."
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