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A Nazi scientist working at the company which made controversial compound thalidomide found in pregnancy drugs signed off on imports of penicillin and other drugs into Ireland during the 1950s, the Irish Thalidomide Association (ITA) has discovered.It is now even more urgent the State shares its papers on the thalidomide controversy to unveil all links with the company now called Grünenthal, the association urged on Thursday.Heinrich Mückter, a Nazi party member, experimented during the Second World War on prisoners in camps including Buchenwald. It is said hundreds died after being injected with the killer disease typhus.Despite being wanted in Poland for war crimes, he escaped and later became chief scientist at Grünenthal. Links between Nazism and thalidomide have been previously documented.In 2012 American outlet Newsweek wrote: “It was in this company of men, indifferent...