No surprise there, first I've heard of it but was developed by mostly "former" Nazis and eugenics guy. From Wikipedia:
"Thalidomide was developed and first released by the small, relatively new German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal in 1954. The company had been established by Hermann Wirtz, Sr, a Nazi Party member, after World War II as a subsidiary of the family's Mäurer & Wirtz company. The company's initial aim was to develop antibiotics for which there was an urgent market need. Wirtz appointed chemist Heinrich Mückter, a known Nazi war criminal, to head the development programme because of his experience researching and producing an anti-typhus vaccine for Nazi Germany.[7] He hired Martin Staemmler, a medical doctor and leading proponent of the Nazi eugenics programme, as head of pathology, as well as Heinz Baumkötter, the chief medical officer at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and Otto Ambros, who had been Hitler's adviser on chemical warfare. Ambros was the chairman of Grünenthal's advisory committee during the development of thalidomide and was a board member when Contergan was being sold."
No surprise there, first I've heard of it but was developed by mostly "former" Nazis and eugenics guy. From Wikipedia:
"Thalidomide was developed and first released by the small, relatively new German pharmaceutical company Chemie Grünenthal in 1954. The company had been established by Hermann Wirtz, Sr, a Nazi Party member, after World War II as a subsidiary of the family's Mäurer & Wirtz company. The company's initial aim was to develop antibiotics for which there was an urgent market need. Wirtz appointed chemist Heinrich Mückter, a known Nazi war criminal, to head the development programme because of his experience researching and producing an anti-typhus vaccine for Nazi Germany.[7] He hired Martin Staemmler, a medical doctor and leading proponent of the Nazi eugenics programme, as head of pathology, as well as Heinz Baumkötter, the chief medical officer at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and Otto Ambros, who had been Hitler's adviser on chemical warfare. Ambros was the chairman of Grünenthal's advisory committee during the development of thalidomide and was a board member when Contergan was being sold."