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Faced by scientific crimes, Allied intelligence attempted to sift the scientific wheat from the ‘pseudo-scientific’ chaff. These efforts ran parallel to Nuremberg trials. The prestigious KWG possessed a degree of insulation from the Nazi state, but far less than its wily administrator, Ernst Telschow, suggested. The KWG was involved in war-related research in the field of armaments, racial policy and Ostforschung. It supported research involving human experiments, and brains and body parts from euthanasia victims, selected by scientists. Luftwaffe-sponsored research involved the KWG brain anatomists Hallervorden and Spatz and the neuro-surgeon Tönnis. The KWG had longstanding interests in aviation research at Göttingen, and Air Marshal Milch was on the governing senate of the KWG. Telschow had links to Blome, and both were involved in the establishing of a Reich Institute for Cancer Research. When Otto Warburg was dismissed in 1941, Brack claimed to have restored Warburg’s post.1
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Weindling, P.J. (2004). Pseudo-science and Psychopaths. In: Nazi Medicine and the Nuremberg Trials. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230506053_8
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