Germany wrestles with the legacy of author Karl May, whose fictional Native American hero, Winnetou, embodies the Germans' love affair with the Wild West.
Ravensburger has pulled books depicting Winnetou, a fictional Apache character, over accusations that the story reinforces racist and colonial stereotypes of Native Americans.
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2000 was awarded jointly to , and "for their discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system".
In the 19th century, a German author named Karl May wrote a series of novels set in the American West which later influenced the worldview of Adolf Hitler.