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Rudolf Carnap
German-born American philosopher Rudolf Carnap, 1960.
Rudolf Carnap moved to the United States in 1935 to escape the political climate in Germany. Although he was not Jewish, he was vulnerable to persecution by the Nazis due to his social-democratic political beliefs.1