NEWS DESK MICHAEL WALSH - 4^th DECEMBER 2000

HUMAN BEINGS GASSED
BY A JEWISH INVENTION

One of the great ironies of the tragedy that befell Europe during the 20^th Century was that a non-racial European, a Jew named Fritz Haber, was the inventor and pioneer of gas as a weapon of war. An irony because whilst the alleged gas chambers of Hitler’s Reich are now revealed as an instrument of post war propaganda there is no such dispute about the origin of gas as a means of slaughtering the enemy.

In Breslau on 9^th December 1862, Fritz Haber was born to a prosperous Jewish chemical merchant. He was to become best associated with the process of synthesizing ammonia from its elements. It was the essential precursor for a great many substances, particularly fertilizers and explosives.

A fanatical researcher from an early age he could be best described as a Frankenstein figure who became obsessed with researching physical chemistry. Such was his success and standing that in 1911 he was appointed director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry in Berlin.

Leading a team of scientists Haber developed a range of processes that provided for the large-scale production of nitric acid – an important ingredient in high explosives. It was during the ensuing frightful period that Haber developed the first essential elements of chemical warfare. The tragic legacy of this Jewish scientist’s research can be seen in those grim photographic records of the Great War, of blinded soldiers, each with the hand on a comrade’s shoulder, being led through the battlefields of Europe’s first holocaust.

THE FRANKENSTEIN JEW OF BRESLAU

Haber’s chemical weaponry was first released on the world when on April 22^nd 1915; the first massive chlorine gas attack took place at Ypres in France. As a consequence it is estimated that as many as 15,000 British troops were wounded or killed with losses to German troops numbering hundreds. For this reason, the ‘Frankenstein Jew of Breslau’ is accurately regarded as being the father of chemical warfare.

At the end of that war Haber was controversially awarded the Nobel Prize in his honour but despite it he was shunned and isolated by the foreign scientific community.

When Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany, Fritz Haber quickly scampered to England where he was given a post at Cambridge University. However the scientist responsible for causing the agonized death of tens of thousands of Europeans soon found the English air not to his liking. Not long afterwards he departed for Switzerland but the English climate had already done its work. The non-lamented Fritz ‘gas attack’ Haber died in Basle on January 30, 1935.