Newsweek was investigating the fate of Nikolai Vavilov's unique seed collection, a significant part of which was lost after the Great Patriotic War, and a very small part found a safe haven in an international repository opened in Svalbard last week A member of the NSDAP since 1934, the SS since 1937, Heinz Brücher described his mission in the territories of the USSR occupied by the Nazis in working reports: “The conquest of the East has made us masters of those areas that in the future will