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Germany's Poison Gas: The First WMD and the Scientist Who Fought It
In Episode 29 of The History of Germany, Lucas and Luna explore the harrowing birth of chemical warfare in World War I and the haunting moral legacy of one man: Fritz Haber. Haber, a German Jewish chemist and Nobel laureate, developed the Haber-Bosch process that feeds billions—but also pioneered poison gas for the Kaiser's army. From the first chlorine cloud at Ypres in 1915 to the gas mask, from the death of his wife Clara Immerwahr to the poison gas used in the Holocaust, this episode traces how Germany launched the age of weapons of mass destruction. We also meet Otto Hahn and…
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