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I am grateful for support from the Mackie Family Collection in the History of Neuroscience, the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health (all: Calgary), and acknowledge the former support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (III-FLF-DEU/1121795). I graciously thank Mr. Christopher Kemp (previously: McGill) for his invaluable research assistance, Ms. Yedida Kanfer (Holocaust Center of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, USA) for her kind archival assistance, as well as Dr. Brenan Smith (Calgary) for the adjustment of the English language of this article.

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  1. Departments of Community Health Sciences and History, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and O’Brien Institute for Public Health, University of Calgary, 3280 Hospital Drive N.W., Calgary, AB, T2N 4Z6, Canada

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Stahnisch, F.W. William G. Niederland (1904–1993). J Neurol 264, 2187–2189 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-017-8492-1

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