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Well here's something I didn't know about this story: apparently Haber was a German nationalist of Jewish descent who was also responsible for the world's first
by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Well here's something I didn't know about this story: apparently Haber was a German nationalist of Jewish descent who was also responsible for the world's first major chemical attack, which killed about 6000 allied troops.
"A week after [that] attack, [his wife] took Haber's service revolver and shot herself, dying in the arms of Hermann, their only son."
Edit: oh god, this is the Zyklon B man.
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- rickyconnolly 13y agoYes, Fritz Haber is pretty much single-handedly responsible for starting the chemical weapons race that ravaged soldiers and citizens alike during the great war. Edit: Although Victor Grignard, on the Allied side, deserves a fair scoop of the blame as well.
- Yaa101 13y agoYes, but like with most industrial/chemical/electronical processes, the processes are benign, it's what people do with them in good and bad ways. What is important as well is that most people in those days had a lot psychological problems and traumas and physical pains (for instance dental), this made people of these generations and before being seen through our eyes of today a bunch of maniacs and sadistic brutes.
- revelation 13y agoHaber was more directly involved rather than just inventing the process that made chemical weapons possible.
- Yaa101 13y agoI did not write that to protect him from criticism, if you read well i said that people can do good or bad things with inventions. He obviously did many bad things with them and at least 1 good thing, inventing a process that without it we would not have such good lives today.