2027-10-01 - 70th an­niver­sary thalido­mide scandal

30.11.1999 - Pedestrians in front of the entrance of Grünenthal GmbH in Stolberg near Aachen (picture from the end of the 1960s). Grünenthal produces the sleeping pill Contergan. The intake of...
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08.05.1980 - Demonstranten auf dem Römerberg am 08.05.1980. Über 2000 Behinderte demonstrierten vor dem Römer in Frankfurt am Main gegen das ihrer Meinung nach diskriminierende Urteil des Frank...
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15.09.2017 - Der Vorsitzende des Bundesverbandes der Contergan-Geschädigten, Georg Löwenhauser, aufgenommen am 15.09.2017 in München (Bayern). Mit Contergan begann einer der größten Medikamente...
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01.05.1968 - Hermann Wirtz, managing partner of pharmaceutical company Grünenthal, was one of the defendants of the Contergan trial which began on 29 May 1968 in Alsdorf, Germany. The case agai...
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14.03.1967 - (L-r) Chief prosecutor Schue, prosecutor Havertzs, chief prosecturo Dr. Gierlich and prosecutor Knipfer during a press conference in Aachen on the 14th of March in 1967. The prosec...
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18.12.1970 - Joint plaintiff attorney Dr. Karl-Hermann Schulte-Hillen (l-r), a journalist, Hubert Linn, chairman of the Federation of the Phisically Disabled, and attorney Dr. Rupert Schreiber...
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28.05.1968 - Attorney Dr. Karl-Hermann Schulte-Hille, representing 143 affected children and himself father of a "Contergan Child", pictured on the second day of trials in Alsdorf, Germany, 28...
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10.10.2007 - Die deutsche Moderatorin, Dressurreiterin und Schriftstellerin Bettina Eistel, aufgenommen am 10.10.2007 auf der Internationalen Frankfurter Buchmesse. Die Contergan geschädigte Au...
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08.11.2007 - Das Firmengebäude der Grünenthal GmbH, aufgenommen am Donnerstag (08.11.2007) in Stolberg bei Aachen. Das Aachener Pharmaunternehmen Grünenthal hat seine Ablehnung bekräftigt, erne...
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25.11.2011 - Contergan: Chronologie der Ereignisse. Hochformat: 45 x 155 mm; Grafik: D. Dytert, Redaktion: K. Klink
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25.11.2011 - Contergan: betroffene Körperregionen und Zahlen zu Entschädigungen. Querformat: 135 x 90 mm; Grafik: D. Dytert, Redaktion: K. Pepping
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19.12.2008 - Automated translation: Original packing with thalidomide tablets. Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 19.12.2008 .
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19.12.2008 - Automated translation: Original packing with thalidomide tablets. Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, 19.12.2008 .
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19.12.1999 - Christian Knabe, contergan-Opfer, arbeitet als Maler., 19.12.1999
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16.12.2010 - Das Schlaf- und Beruhigungsmittel Contergan steht am Donnerstag (16.12.2010) in einer Vitrine im Deutschen Museum in München (Oberbayern). Erst Ende 1961 wurde Contergan vom Markt...
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15.09.2017 - Der Vorsitzende des Bundesverbandes der Contergan-Geschädigten, Georg Löwenhauser, aufgenommen am 15.09.2017 in München (Bayern). Mit Contergan begann einer der größten Medikamente...
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24.03.1968 - Contergan affected children jump around on tires at the playground of the city run day care center for children suffering from dysmelia in the Klettenberg district in Cologne, Germ...
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02.04.1963 - German health minister Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt visits Contergan affected children at the dysmelia ward of the the "Anna-Stift" hospital in Hanover, Germany, 2 April 1963. To her lef...
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02.04.1963 - German health minister Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (c) visits Contergan affected children at the dysmelia ward of the the "Anna-Stift" hospital in Hanover, Germany, 2 April 1963. To her...
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17.09.1963 - Georg Diederichs (r), prime minister of the German state of Lower Saxony, visits the "Anna-Stift" hospital in Hanover, Germany, 17 September 1963. The hospital offers therapies for...
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27.05.1968 - Jugde Dr. Weber. The trial began on 27 May 1968 in Alsdorf near Aachen, Germany, and ended without a verdict on 18 December 1970. The Grünenthal company agreed voluntarily to a pay...
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28.05.1968 - Defendants in the courtroom. The trial began on 27 May 1968 in Alsdorf near Aachen, Germany, and ended without a verdict on 18 December 1970. The Grünenthal company agreed voluntar...
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27.05.1968 - View of the courtroom. The trial began on 27 May 1968 in Alsdorf near Aachen, Germany, and ended without a verdict on 18 December 1970. The Grünenthal company agreed voluntarily to...
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27.05.1968 - A Mother in the courtroom. The trial began on 27.05.1968 in Alsdorf near Aachen, Germany, and ended without a verdict on 18 December 1970. The Grünenthal company agreed voluntarily...
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27.05.1968 - Jugdes in the courtroom. The trial began on 27 May 1968 in Alsdorf near Aachen, Germany, and ended without a verdict on 18 December 1970. The Grünenthal company agreed voluntarily...
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28.05.1968 - Prosecutors in the courtroom. The trial began on 27 May 1968 in Alsdorf near Aachen, Germany, and ended without a verdict on 18 December 1970. The Grünenthal company agreed volunta...
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27.05.1968 - Justice officials with documents.The trial began on 27.05.1968 in Alsdorf near Aachen, Germany, and ended without a verdict on 18 December 1970. The Grünenthal company agreed volun...
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28.05.1968 - Parents in the courtroom. The trial began on 27 May 1968 in Alsdorf near Aachen, Germany, and ended without a verdict on 18 December 1970. The Grünenthal company agreed voluntarily...
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08.11.2007 - Ein Firmenschild der Grünenthal GmbH, aufgenommen am Donnerstag (08.11.2007) in Stolberg bei Aachen. Das Aachener Pharmaunternehmen Grünenthal hat seine Ablehnung bekräftigt, erneu...
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10.12.2020 - Der Sitz des Pharmaunternehmens Grünenthal in Aachen.
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27.05.1968 - View of the courtroom photographed on 27 May 1968. The trial against seven high ranking employees of the Stollberg-based Grünenthal company, makers of the drug Contergan, began on...
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