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The article discusses the expedition of German scientists Ernst Georg Nauck and Gustav Giemsa to Espírito Santo, Brazil in 1936 as part of their research for the Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg, Germany. Subjects include research on tropical medicine during the Third Reich, the thesis of racial hygiene by German physician Peter Mühlens, and social conditions of immigrants from Germany in Brazil at that time. A brief historical overview of the German emigration to Brazil in the 19th century is also included.

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