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Nature 404, 330 (23 March 2000) | doi:10.1038/35006267

reply: People must be judged in the context of their time

Susanne Heim1

  1. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Wilhelmstrasse 44, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Wobus and Schubert say it is "unfair" and "unjustified" to claim that Hans Stubbe collaborated with the SS to plunder valuable Russian collections of wild and cultivated plants. But there is extensive historical evidence testifying to precisely these facts.