[williamjennings]

The interesting thing is that the stuff named after O. Teichmueller is originally named after other mathematicians. Those journals all have the same name until the postwar period when they become taboo to cite. The names were changed and some of the propaganda was removed during the reconstruction of Germany.

However, the unreferenced and politically reprehensible nature of Teichmueller is just reasons for his extirpation from the mathematical literature. It is the best way to do justice to his German contemporaries, some of whom were Holocaust victims.

Consider Felix Hausdorff as the injured party who worked on exactly the same subject of topological metric spaces. The lack of information on Teichmueller is because his record is obscene, and thusly being curtailed. He would have been found guilty of war crimes had he survived the war.

The problem with Mathematics under the Nazis is that most academics engaged in plagiarism, and justified the theft with false notions of racial purity. The draconian Nazi party forced their best minds to emigrate, and the list those who fled includes: Herman Weyl, Kurt Friedrich Gödel, Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, Emmy Noether, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, John von Neumann, Stanislaw Ulam, Wolfgang Pauli, and Max Born.

Topology is not too difficult to understand, it is only esoteric. The historiography of brutal dictatorships is both arduous and mysterious. I am only familiar with the ten names because I have enjoyed citing them in my work.

The most inspiring part of the story is that the intellectual migrants were employed in the research and development of weapons that would later defeat Nazism.