Germ Theory, not Eugenics, lay behind Auschwitz
Rather like the ideal civilized white middle class male, to qualify as worthy of respect, a microbe had to be virile and virulent and thus labelled a pathogen.
By contrast, Dr Henry Dawson's first independent scientific paper was all about the activities of non-virulent, non-pathogenic microbes.
Not a good way to position oneself in the fast track - certainly not in 1926 --- and still not in 2016.
