Thalidomide is the most enigmatic drug ever produced, but its story is even stranger. It has been alleged that the drug was manufactured by Nazi doctors and tested on innocent victims in their concentrations camps. One of those Nazi doctors, Otto Ambros, was sentenced to eight years in prison – and then was hired to the advisory board of a company called Chemie Grünenthal, the company that made thalidomide. If that information is not weird enough, the doctor who blew the whistle on thalidomide, Widukind Lenz, was formerly an active Nazi, the son of the principal Nazi eugenicist.

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