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Rudolf Carnap
German-born American philosopher Rudolf Carnap, 1960.
Rudolf Carnap was vulnerable to persecution by the Nazis due to his social-democratic political beliefs. Although he was not Jewish, these political convictions placed him at risk under the Nazi regime, eventually leading him to move to the United States in 1935.1