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Q: How were gender and class roles defined during this time frame?

Albert Einstein: Most the people(mostly men) went into the wars during this time frame. The women worked in the back; taking care of injured soldiers. They did this, or they stayed home and took care of the families and cleaned the house. Everybody in Germany wanted to be in the science field, but this was hard because of the wars themselves. This is also one reason I studied on my own to finish my work and theories.

Q: What were the basic demographics of the country during the time your were working?



Albert Einstein: Millions died during WWI and it was seen as the deadliest battle of them all. But, when Hitler came and WWII started to grow, deaths went through almost the hundred millions. This was because so many Jewish and other racial and cultural differences lived in Germany. This also a reason I fled to America before the death of the Jewish started. I was a Jew myself. I continued my work in America.

Q: What artists, musicians, and writers were working at the same time and in the same country as you?

Albert Einstein: Military music was famous during my era in WWI and WWII. Other than that, old time music was played and listened to. The "art" was propaganda pictures to get guys to join the war.

Q: What major cultural, economic, and political situations were taking places at the time of your work?

Albert Einstein: World War I had a strong effect on me. While the rest of Germany supported the army, I felt the war was unnecessary, and disgusting. The new weapons of war, which attempted to mass slaughter people, caused me to devote much of my life toward creating peace. Toward the end of the war I joined a political party that worked to end the war and the government.

Q: How did your ideas fit with or differ from the beliefs at the time?

Albert Einsten: Some of my scientific ideas related to my beliefs and somewhat interferred with them. Some of my ideas proved what some of the subjects on the Bible said, wrong. I was started to be perceived as a traitor to what the Bible said.

Q: What were the prevalent philosophical and/or religious beliefs at the time?

Albert Einstein: The beliefs at the time and where I lived that were prevalent were Jewish-Christian beliefs which were based on the Bible. Later in my life I started to doubt the Bible. But, that is a different subject.