“…The leading scientific journal of the DChG was the Berichte der deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft, whereas the top-tier journal of the VDCh was Angewandte Chemie. [3] Although several monographs about these scientific organizations were available before Maiers study, [4,5] these were to some extent outdated and, furthermore, did not treat the role of these organizations and their top representatives between 1933 and 1945 in detail. In addition, before the political changes that took place in 1989, the authors of these books were not in a position to include the information stored in the archives of the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR; German Democratic Republic or East Germany) and the Soviet Union.…”