Destruction of Stromer's Collection
In 1944, towards the tail end of World War II, Stromer's entire fossil collection—including the only known (though incomplete) skeletons of Spinosaurus and Aegyptosaurus—was destroyed when the museum in which it was held in Munich was bombed by the Allied Royal Air Force during a raid.
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