Dr. Horst Holthoff, a leading physician at a hospital in Cologne, informed Grünenthal about “probable polyneuritis” in his hands and feet. He had taken Contergan regularly over a period of 7 months and asked if Grünenthal has heard of similar cases.

The company responded, again saying they have never heard of anything like that.

Source: Source: Anklageschrift (indictment) from 1967, today archived at the National Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia in Duisburg, Germany (Rheinland Division, Gerichte Rep. 139, No. 1–396), p. 85.