It was a little bit an oopsie as none of them anticipated the war getting as out of hand as it did. What upset the apple cart was German midwar discovery of the haber process which allowed them to continue manufacturing explosives and fertiliser long after the other powers had projected they would run out of nitrates
Wasn't that Haber also jewish, and his work would later be used to make Zyklon B? Or am I thinking of a different German chemist who contributed heavily to the war effort in WWI and then had most of his family sent to Dachau?
It was a little bit an oopsie as none of them anticipated the war getting as out of hand as it did. What upset the apple cart was German midwar discovery of the haber process which allowed them to continue manufacturing explosives and fertiliser long after the other powers had projected they would run out of nitrates
Wasn't that Haber also jewish, and his work would later be used to make Zyklon B? Or am I thinking of a different German chemist who contributed heavily to the war effort in WWI and then had most of his family sent to Dachau?
yeah but part of his contribution to the war effort was the invention of chemical warfare so he's still a controversial figure
fun fact: so disillusioned with her husband's zeal for using science to contribute to the war effort, his wife killed herself with his service weapon.
that fact wasn't fun at all