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Nature 443, 271 (21 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/443271a; Published online 20 September 2006

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Freedom of the mind got Nature banned by the Nazis

Uwe Hos zligfeld1 & Lennart Olsson2

  1. Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, D-07745 Jena, Germany
  2. Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutions-biologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Erbertstras zlige 1, D-07745 Jena, Germany

Today, when freedom of the press and academia are in the news, along with the neglect or misuse of scientific results and theories by politicians, it may be useful to remember a time when political demagogy crushed these freedoms in Germany.At the inauguration of the Philipp Lenard Institute in Heidelberg in 1936, German scientists and politicians started a campaign against Nature that succeeded in having the journal banned from libraries.

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