Reply To: between Berlin and Slobodka

Smerel Rav Hutner certainly did study at Berlin University; that was the only reason he was in Berlin in the first place. That he was not registered there was because he was a foreigner without the qualifications to be admitted, so like all similarly situated students he officially registered as a student at the Hidesheimer Yeshivah, which had an arrangement with the Berlin University to allow its students to take classes there, much like YU students can take classes at Columbia. But this was just a cover; de facto, these students were full-time university students who occasionally attended a shiur at the yeshivah, not full-time yeshivah students who occasionally attended a university lecture.