TIL that Thalidomide, the drug responsible for thousands of birth defects across Europe in the 1950s/60s, was developed by a doctor who had previously worked for the Nazis, experimenting on concentration camp victims

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_M%C3%BCckter
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