# #Mon Aug 09 11:56:58 CEST 2010 Text__aTrIkKOcEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=Einstein\u2019s Enemies Believe Their Hour Has Come Text__aTrIkKOcEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=

In the letter quoted here, Philipp Lenard, anti-Semite and advocate of a so-called \u201CGerman physics,\u201D constructs an image of the enemy for what became known as the \u201CEinstein circle.\u201D

Lenard had started his agitation against Einstein and his theories right after World War I.

Together with Johannes Stark he attempts to expose the theory of relativity as a fraud. However, the influence of both men declines in the late 1930s.