of his relatives and friends had fled Germany, he did not think seriously about leaving until 1937, in which year he went to Brussels to work with Paul Oppenheim, this time writing several papers on the analysis of scientific explanation and on Gestalt psychology. On 10 May 1940, the first day of the German invasion in Belgium, Grelling was arrested. He was deported to southern France, where he was interned for over two years under the Vichy regime. Oppenheim and Hempel tried to help Grelling by securing an appointment for him at the New School for Social Research in New York City. News of the position and a visa to the United States reached the camp where Grelling had been joined by his wife Greta, who had refused to divorce him for safety reasons. But U.S. immigration officials were perplexed by Grelling's alleged propensity towards Communism, so there was a delay that was fatal to Grelling. He and his wife were shipped to Auschwitz, arriving there on September 18, 1942 and perishing in the gas chambers that day or soon thereafter. Selected publications Die Axiome der Arithmetik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Beziehungen zur Mengenlehre. PhD dissertation, Göttingen University Press, 1910. Anti-J'accuse. Eine deutsche Antwort. Zürich: Art. Institut Orell Füssli, 1916. "Gibt es eine Gödelsche Antinomie?", in: Theoria 3 (1937):297–306. Notes References Nikolay Milkov (2013), "The Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle: Affinities and Divergences", in: N. Milkov & V. Peckhaus (eds.), The Berlin Group and the Philosophy of Logical Empiricism. Springer, pp. 3–32. C. G. Hempel, "Autobiografia intellettuale" in Oltre il positivismo logico. Armando: Rome, 1988. (Text of an interview Hempel gave to Richard Noland in 1982, published for the first time in Italian translation in 1988.) Abraham S. Luchins and Edith H. Luchins, [http://gestalttheory.net/archive/kgrelbio.html "Kurt Grelling: Steadfast scholar in a time of madness"], Journal of Gestalt Theory, Vol. 22, Apr 2000, pp 228–281 — Includes a picture gallery. Günther Sandner, "The Berlin Group in the Making: Politics and Philosophy in the Early Works of Hans Reichenbach and Kurt Grelling". 10th International Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS), Ghent, July 2014. Abstract. External links Query at the Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics Biographical Notes at Murzim.net 20th-century German philosophers German people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp 1886 births 1942 deaths Jewish philosophers German logicians German people executed in Nazi concentration camps Writers