ABSTRACT
The psychoanalytic refugees aided by the American Psychoanalytic Association were merely a small proportion from the wave of asylum-seekers escaping the brutality of National Socialism. Amongst these were a 14-year-old boy named Adolf Grünbaum and his family, who fled from the German city of Koln and arrived in Brooklyn, New York, in 1938. During his military service in World War II, Grunbaum first worked in a research group and later served in US Army intelligence. Just after the Soviets conquered Berlin, Grunbaum was installed at Heinrich Himmler's former Gestapo Headquarters, where he interrogated German academic prisoners and high-ranking SS and Wehrmacht officers. After the war, he went on to study physics at Yale, and he did his doctoral research on Zeno's paradoxes under Carl Hempel, the great empiricist philosopher of science. Grünbaum went on to establish himself as a world authority on the philosophy of physics.
