“Germany is confronting another chapter from its past — allegations that Western drug companies used more than 50,000 people in the former communist East as ‘human guinea pigs’ in 1980s medical trials. Several people were known to have died during trials, and some tests involved infants and delirious alcoholics, said the report on the agreements with the police state that collapsed with the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall. Calls have grown for full transparency into the agreements overseen by the State Security (Stasi) secret police to earn the communist state tens of millions in hard-currency Deutschmarks.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/16/anger-over-east-german-medical-human-guinea-pigs/
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