When the personal becomes the political, it can have a devastating effect on those feeling the sharp end of such a vicious vendetta. Here, Thomas Harding looks at how Hitler conspired to hunt down and ...

(National Geographic Photo / Dusan Martincek) There have been plenty of TV documentaries about Albert Einstein, but almost none of them begin with a political assassination and a sex scene.

The hut was a secret refuge to avoid a rumored attempt at assassination by agents acting ... depths of the English countryside. Professor Albert Einstein, famous scientist who sought refuge ...

There were at least two assassination attempts on him ... That’s the day when Albert Einstein became immortal. For the previous two centuries, Isaac Newton’s logic prevailed.

Albert Einstein with his secretary, Miss B Howard, and Commander Oliver L Lampson, who had arranged for an armed guard for the scientist at his holiday camp near Cromer.Photograph: Bettmann ...

Albert Einstein was not home ... On this particular day, Einstein unexpectedly fled Berlin because of a rumored assassination attempt on his own life. He sought refuge in Leiden, 400 miles ...