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How did Heinrich Himmler intervene after attacks on Werner Heisenberg in the SS journal?

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After the official SS journal published an article in 1937 labeling Werner Heisenberg a "white Jew" and the "Ossietzky of physics," Heisenberg reached out to Heinrich Himmler. Because their families were acquainted, Heisenberg requested that the SS chief intervene regarding his professional standing and the attacks against him.1

Following an investigation, Himmler decreed a compromise: Heisenberg would not be appointed to the professorship at the University of Munich as he had hoped, but he was granted protection from further personal attacks and was essentially promised a different prominent position in the future.1