First Time Hearing SABATON Father Official Lyric Video Reaction

He actually did intend on using it as a weapon in war time, he was even promoted to captain and head of the chemistry section of the ministry of war, he defend med the use of chemical weapons basically saying death is death whether from a bullet or gas

“During peace he belonged to the world, during war he belonged to his place of birth”. The food for the world, the chemical weapons for his country, Saint ez I would say

Fritz Haber is the pinnacle of what it means to be human, We are the destroyers of worlds but we are also the inventors of bright new futures. Our conscientious decisions in the moment we live them are what make us human. Fail we might, but success is built on mountains of failure. Live and Learn, make your decisions but live and learn from them whether the consequences be Glorious or Tragic.

I love the history that they teach, I also love thar they show the humanity in the most inhuman actions we get involved in.

The sinner part comes from his creation of chlorine gas and phosgene gas. He was proud of his creations being used on the battlefield and defended the use of chemical weapons. "The disapproval that the knight had for the man with the firearm is repeated in the soldier who shoots with steel bullets towards the man who confronts him with chemical weapons. [...] The gas weapons are not at all more cruel than the flying iron pieces; on the contrary, the fraction of fatal gas diseases is comparatively smaller, the mutilations are missing". His work was later used (without his involvement) to create Zyklon B, which was used to kill more than 1 million Jews in the gas chambers during the Holocaust.

I could have sworn I've seen you do this reaction before, at the time this song was newly released. You being only the second person to have an inkling about what the Manifesto of 93was, as I've watched. The contradiction of Haber is great. He took very active part in supervising and calibrating the effects of the gasgranates in the trenches. Being very patriotic of his Preussian/ German background and wanting to break the stalemate of the trench warfares. There's no real evidence that his wife took her life due to protesting again at his chemical warfare, though she was a chemist herself, they met as fellow chemical students, and probably understood very well what he was achieving. The marriage was already unhappy. True is that he within days of her suicide left his young son behind and went to the Eastern war front to further develop the chemical warfare on that front. Sabaton sings about Germany using gas on Russian soldiers in Attack of the Dead Men. After the war he briefly staid in Switzerland, fearing to be arrested as a war criminal. He returned to Germany and made a distinguished academic career, further enhanced by the Nobel prize. Around 1922/23 he and his team developed the prototype to a agricultural pesticide, Zyklon-A. When Hitler took power he was harassed into giving up his academic positions and exile himself first to Cambridge. Being of Jewish birth, neither his early conversion to christianity,nor his patriotism could help him. Hitler is reputed to have a personal repugnance of gas warfare,due to his own experiences in the trenches. Haber didn't get accepted in Britain, leading scientists reputedly refused even to shake his hand. Returning to Switzerland he died in exile 1933. Well after his death nazi scientists further developed his earlier findings into Zyklon-B of death gas infame. He had several Jewish relatives who died in concentration camps. Long dead then, he didn't foreshadow all those bad things, but during his life he never publicly showed any remorse ofe those thousands directly killed and the even higher number maimed for life by his gas works. A true man of contradiction as his discoveries also helped millions survive famine. Sabaton manage to portray this dark conflict in a very poweful way.

Interesting point in regards to the manifesto of the 93, einstein was one of the few german intelligentsia who refused to sign it, instead signing the similarly named anti war "Manifesto to the Europeans" written by Georg Friedrich Nicolai and Wilhelm Julius Foerster with the latter having signed the 93 manifest but quickly recanted

What a brilliant reaction! Chapeau Sir!

"What's coming next, from your inventions?" That's an especially dark line when you read a bit more into his story. Once the nazis took power they found some unfinished projects of Huber. They took a kin interest in a particular one, which they used as a base for what would be called Zyklone B... so Huber indirectly also had his finger into the gassing of the jews and the holocaust

You should watch the sabaton history of this, even if just on your own time, it gives a lot of useful and informative details.

He wasn't a monster. He did what he thought was right to try to end the war quickly. There's a reason we shouldn't rush to fight. what he created was a horrific but completely legitimate weapon.

When the man just sits and smiles whilst listening.... You just know he loves the song. Great reaction! <3

He created/discovered something that man and not known about beforehand. The scientist job is to explore the vast unknown. Regardless of how that knowledge was eventually used, he was still an excellent scientist and researcher.

Just gonna like this before I even watch because your voice is awesome FATHER OF TOXIC GAS!

The field of scientific abstraction encompasses independent kingdoms of ideas and of experiments and within these, rulers whose fame outlasts the centuries. But they are not the only kings in science. He also is a king who guides the spirit of his contemporaries by knowledge and creative work, by teaching and research in the field of applied science, and who conquers for science provinces which have only been raided by craftsmen. — Fritz Haber

at 1:40 about manifest 93. it was fun to see how you worked your mind to find that knowledge memory of it.

7:28 he was the scientist that created a process to create ammonia wich had many uses. But to say that his invention was took to create weapons is only half true. Yes the ammonia was used for weapons but he was also involved in creating other toxic gases for the use in weapons. He didn't have bad intentions tho. He thought he was developing a weapon that is deadly enough to bring the war to a quick end similar to what was done in ww2 with the atomic bomb. Sadly it didn't have the effect that he thought it would have and instead just killed a lot of people without changeing the length of the war

He invented it they used it

The invention of the industrial production of NH3 was one of the biggest discovery connected to large-scale production of fertilizer. He also discovers fosgen and other chemical weapons.. unfortunately.

this was pretty nice reaction, i like that you called out a few things before hand that they was going to mention and that you bring up the debate if he was good or bad. personaly i think people figure shit out for the sake of good but there will always be people there who wants to use sayd thing for bad things or in this example for war