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RE: Neuroscience in Nazi Europe Part I: Eugenics, Human Experimentation, and Mass Murder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2014

Lawrence A. Zeidman*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Letters to the Editor
Copyright
Copyright © The Canadian Journal of Neurological 2012

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