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Virtually no one outside Germany, however, thought that Schramm's story was right. This was because of the war. It was inconceivable to most people that the German beasts would have permitted the extensive experiments underlying his claims to be routinely carried out during the last years of a war they were so badly losing. It was all too easy to image that the work had direct Nazi support and that his experiments were incorrectly analyzed. Wasting time to disprove Schramm was not to most biochemists' liking.
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Macrakis, K. The survival of basic biological research in National Socialist Germany. J Hist Biol 26, 519–543 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01062060
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