Father – Fritz Haber – Sabaton History 113 [Official]

Fritz Haber is a controversial historical figure. He was responsible for scientific advances that fed billions, yet he created weapons of mass destruction that filled millions with terror. This is his story.

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Photo of Ladislaus Farkas works in the laboratory of Prof. Fritz Haber in the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives #63547. Courtesy of Leorah Kroyanker, Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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[SabatonHistory]

Where do you stand? Was Haber a monster who murdered hundreds of thousands of people, or was a benefactor for all mankind? Can one be both, or does one override the other one? And if so, which one?

[Damien.D]

Fritz Haber : invented poison gas warfare, but saved mankind from starvation.
Wernher Von Braun : had death camp slaves built missiles to launch at London, but paved the way in space exploration like no one before.
Enrico Fermi (and the whole Manhattan Project scientists) : built a weapon of mass destruction and turned 200.000 japanese civilians into dust in a flash, but harnessed an extremely powerful and clean energy.
Archimedes : build siege weapons and used mirror as death rays to set wooden ship ablaze, but also did groundbreaking studies in physics, mathematics, astronomy...
(just to name a few)
Science is not bad or evil. science discovers the means, but it's up to mankind to define the uses.

[ErC]

As a german chemist I definitely learned a lot about Fritz Haber. The Haber-Bosch process is a very instructive reaction which is great to teach basic understandings of the chemical equilibrium and basic thermodynamics. Its importance in economy is even greater. From a chemical standpoint of view the nobel prize to Haber was more than deserved. But still its just as important to learn about the other side of Haber. He is the perfect example of what chemistry can do: it can change the world to a better place AND it can kill ten thousands of people. I think every chemist needs to know what kind of responsibility comes with this profession.

[starsword-c]

"being shot in the head, you die"

*Laughs in Unkillable Soldier*

[thenexus]

Pär: "we're *probably* not going back in time to meet Fritz Haber"

So Pär pretty much told us that they have a time machine

[eatenbyghouls]

I wish more big bands did EPs, like it's kinda nice getting like smaller scale "albums" between regular albums

[coldservings]

Haber is a good example of how history is messy and complicated.

[kuroazrem]

I didn't know Indie was also an expert in Chemistry. This man doesn't cease to amaze me.

[camohawk]

My dad meet a guy who served in ww1. The guy was in a gas attack and only had a quarter of one lung left. He shared a cigarette with him before he found that out.

[EJ_Red]

A new song?
*Give it to me NOW*

EDIT: I really like how Sabaton is going into the scientific perspective of warfare, it is definitely just as important as the concept and subjects of war itself

[Allium]

1:58 Ah, I see that Haber's interest for that style of glasses was a lifelong ine

[thenoobgameplays]

I feel like, everytime you guys work on a episode involving the Great War, Indy get's happy and probably nostalgic of the whole TGW project.

[alienatedpoet]

Back in 2016/2017 I did a project for my Dual enrollment High-school history class over the Second Battle of Ypre. Way before I even heard of Sabaton. And I went down the rabbit hole of chlorine gas and Fritz Haber. I remember reading one soldier recount the event. He was on the ground and saw people choking on the gas, some soldiers tried to drink muddy water to help their burning throats, only to die quicker since chlorine attaches to water. This same soldier noticed some soldiers drop down, only to suffocate as the denser chlorine stayed low to the ground, unlike conventional smoke. Except one. One guy managed to climb a tree and escape the gas. That's how they figured it out. Likewise, soldiers had to learn to soak their rags in Urine to help protect against the chlorine because the ammonia would protect them (Last I read the science behind it is still up for debate, but it is funny that Haber was praised over synthetic ammonia only for ammonia to protect against his next lethal breakthrough.).

I'm pretty sure Haber's son wrote a book over his perspective of his father and family. I think I used that in my project too. Also I'm so happy Sabaton covered this topic, because this is the topic that got me interested in World War 1, and I was disappointed it wasn't covered until. Thank you Sabaton!

[martina]

5:34-“Saltpeter nitrogen imports from Chile.” As a Chilean who had to study my own country’s painfully boring history all through high school, this gave me CURSED flashbacks😅🇨🇱 Anyway, loving the new single so far, and what a great episode…Sabaton rocks!🤘🏼🖤

[Beriothien]

"We board so we wrote more songs for our fans" - Sabaton

[daffierpython]

I love when joakim talks all dark and evil like just like he does in this song we don't get it a lot but it's amazing when it is

[kevinramsey]

I see him the say way I look at Robert Oppenheimer. A genius who invented something unspeakably horrible.

[kevinramsey]

My great grandfather was gassed in 1918 and had lung problems for the rest of his life which eventually killed him.

[dragonmaster]

Kaiser: "I will psychologically break the Soviets"
The Soviets: "how 'bout you be the one psychologically broken"

[joeybroda]

Fritz Haber is one of the grandfathers of my entire profession. I use principles that he developed with some frequency. I think his story is useful in how sobering it is. Science itself doesn't care. With a similar process you can make ammonia or you can make gas shells. It alludes to the raw power and potential that can be created in industrial engineering. But because the science itself doesn't have a morality, it means that the designers and engineers need to have to clear sense of what they are doing and how it could be used.