Meitner, an Austrian Jew, lost her citizenship with the "Anschluss", the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938, but she fled to Sweden and started a correspondence by mail with Hahn in Berlin.
Meitner lost her citizenship with the "Anschluss", the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. Meitner was an Austrian Jew. She fled to Sweden. She started a correspondence by mail with Hahn in Berlin.