1940

Four hundred prisoners in Chicago are infected with Malaria in order to study the effects of new and experimental drugs to combat the disease. Nazi doctors later on trial at Nuremberg cite this American study to defend their own actions during the Holocaust....

1939

World War II begins in Europe, when Germany invades Poland. In Germany, sterilisation of the mentally retarded was replaced by a euthanasia law. Now patients in mental hospitals could simply be killed on eugenics grounds. Victims of this program, both adults and...

1938

Einstein proposes to take Kaluza’s fifth dimension as REAL. Later retracts. Estonia, Juminda. Two observers watched a 1-meter long object that was greenish -brown in color until it finally disappeared. Josef Stalin tries the “Anti-Soviet bloc of rightists...

1936

John Maynard Keynes publishes The General Theory of Economics. So-called “Macroeconomics” is born. The Olympic Games are held in Berlin. African American track and field star Jesse Owens wins gold medals. A UFO crashed near the city of Freiburg, according...

1935

The Pellagra Incident. After millions of individuals die from Pellagra over a span of two decades, the U.S. Public Health Service finally acts to stem the disease. The director of the agency admits it had known for at least 20 years that Pellagra is caused by a niacin...