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Although this disease was known before Wegener"s description, from the 1950s onwards it has generally been called by the name Wegener"s granulomatosis. Wegener joined the Nazi Party in 1932. As a relatively high-ranking military physician, he spent some of World World War II in a medical office three blocks from the Łódź Ghetto, a Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland.
There is speculation that he participated in experiments on concentration camp inmates.
After his Nazi past was discovered in 2000, the ACCP rescinded the prize and, separately, a campaign was begun to rename Wegener"s granulomatosis to ANCA-associated granulomatous vasculitis. More recently, several journals proposed the name "granulomatosis with polyangiitis" in a 2011 editorial.