Comment by chromanoid

Göttingen is still a top 200 university, and as far as I remember a talk by Jens Frahm has the highest density of living Nobel Laureates. After the war a famous French singer made a song about Göttingen https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s9b6E4MnCWk And I think she sings of a left leaning free spirit that bloomed again after the war very soon. Academic lifestyle and a focus on the strife for knowledge are still substantial cultural and economic pillars of Göttingen.