A confidential memo about a meeting between Dr. Heinrich Mückter (head of Grünenthal’s research department) and other senior employees at Grünenthal on January 16, 1961 stated the extreme importance of the “prevention of negative articles about Contergan. […] The exertion of influence on publication dates and text changes for the just discussed articles were coordinated”.

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. 153.