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Political influence on science was nothing new in Germany in the Nazi era and, as far as Britain was concerned, could be traced directly back to the anti-British propaganda of the First World War. Gregory retired in 1939 while the ban was still in place, but he lived long enough to witness Nature’s revival in Germany after the war. Although it had shown interest in the then-fashionable theory of eugenics, the journal had indeed deplored the expulsion from 1933 of Jewish academics from Germany. This was a blow for Nature’s Editor Sir Richard Gregory, which ran counter to the magazine’s reputation as an international institution and pioneer on social issues. This had a direct impact on science when Nature and other journals perceived as critical of the régime were banned from German libraries in 1937. The Nazi régime was acutely aware of the importance of radio and print for distributing propaganda. Sir Richard Gregory’s Nature criticized the expulsion of Jewish scientists from Nazi Germany.

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