Handwritten Einstein Letter Auctioned Off for Nearly $40,000

The Associated Press
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JERUSALEM—A handwritten letter written by Albert Einstein warning of the dangers of growing anti-Semitism and fascism years before the Nazis—National Socialist German Workers’ Party—rose to power has been sold for nearly $40,000.

Fascism is an extreme authoritarian form of groupism, which was predominately nationalistic in flavour in early 20th century Europe.