Medicine: Cancer Rot

Perhaps Germany's Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, compelled the publication of a report in Berlin newspapers last week that a Nazi anatomist had discovered the precise cause of cancer. At least that is what scientists who respect Wilhelm von Bremer of Berlin's State Biological Institute would like to believe.

According to Dr. von Bremer, cancer comes from a germ which skulks inside red blood cells. Berlin papers printed pictures of such cancerigenic germs, which Dr. von Bremer claimed to have separated from their hosts. He has even bred...

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