![EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Autograph letter signed ('Papa') to his sons Hans Albert and Eduard ('Liebe Kinder'), n.p. [Berlin], 10 December 1918, one page, 4°, on a sheet torn from a notebook (short tear to vertical centre-fold, not touching text, lightly browned).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2001/CSK/2001_CSK_09261_0070_000(034905).jpg?w=1)
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EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955). Autograph letter signed ('Papa') to his sons Hans Albert and Eduard ('Liebe Kinder'), n.p. [Berlin], 10 December 1918, one page, 4°, on a sheet torn from a notebook (short tear to vertical centre-fold, not touching text, lightly browned).
EINSTEIN DESCRIBES THE 1918 REVOLUTION IN GERMANY. 'Your strike was only a feeble reflection of the revolution here. It began in Kiel. The sailors there refused to continue fighting, dismissed their officers, took possession of the public buildings and administration of the city'. Einstein goes on to describe the dissolution of the regime, the institution of the new socialist government, and the ensuing chaos: 'things are pretty wild ... Paper money is printed in vast amounts, so that its value keeps going down'. Meanwhile the soldiers have returned from the front: 'It was an exuberant moment. Many boys like you rode with the soldiers or followed them through the streets ... But Tete [Eduard] should not play soldier ...'.
Einstein had worked in Berlin through the war, relatively undisturbed by events, while his first wife Mileva, from whom he had been separated since 1914, and their children remained in their old home in Zurich. He made little reference to the events of the First World War in his correspondence with his family.
EINSTEIN DESCRIBES THE 1918 REVOLUTION IN GERMANY. 'Your strike was only a feeble reflection of the revolution here. It began in Kiel. The sailors there refused to continue fighting, dismissed their officers, took possession of the public buildings and administration of the city'. Einstein goes on to describe the dissolution of the regime, the institution of the new socialist government, and the ensuing chaos: 'things are pretty wild ... Paper money is printed in vast amounts, so that its value keeps going down'. Meanwhile the soldiers have returned from the front: 'It was an exuberant moment. Many boys like you rode with the soldiers or followed them through the streets ... But Tete [Eduard] should not play soldier ...'.
Einstein had worked in Berlin through the war, relatively undisturbed by events, while his first wife Mileva, from whom he had been separated since 1914, and their children remained in their old home in Zurich. He made little reference to the events of the First World War in his correspondence with his family.
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