Fritz Haber War

Imagine you are a soldier at war fighting for your country. You have no other thought in your head but the fact that you are destined to beat the filthy slobs on the other side. Little do you know how the chemicals used to destroy the enemy will effect him; let alone yourself. Little do you know how the enemy’s family on the other side will be affected once he’s dead. World War 1 and World War 2 both had many similarities and differences. Both Wars started from an imbalance of power, had incredibly high death tolls, and caused lasting effects on many countries.

WW1 also known as “The Great War” was a brutal war that wreaked havoc upon europe.

Fritz Haber was a contested recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a process using atmospheric nitrogen for ammonia synthesis, primarily due to his wartime efforts on behalf of Germany. The Haber Process was used by the Germans to make explosives during World War I after access to nitrates were cut off by Allied blockades (The Nobel Foundation, 2014). Additionally, Haber developed chemical weapons used against Allied forces. Later controversy was surely stirred by the fact that Haber developed the poisonous gas, Zyklon B, used at Auschwitz. In an ironic twist of fate, Haber was Jewish by birth (Manchester, 2002).

World War I was a ghastly experience for the soldiers due to what they experienced during the war. Many of the Soldiers that were drafted in the war were young and fresh out of high-school. These young soldiers left their home, away from family and friends, to fight a war not knowing if they were going to return home. These young soldiers hardly had any training before being forced to fight a war and many had lost their lives. These young soldiers were finding themselves losing their youth and innocence during the war. For those who returned from the war they came back a different person. While the outside world was living carefree lives; these soldiers were living in monstrous horror.

As you may already know World War one was a brutal event that took place in history;

The Great War is much like the great irony. Nationalistic ideals has consumed the humanity of individuals and blinded them from the truth. Governments used propagandas, and more to persuade young and naïve soldiers to enlist in the war. In All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, illustrates the life of a soldier, Paul. He and his fellow comrades have to face the horrors of the war. For the soldiers that survive, they are not only physically destroyed but mentally as well. War World One is not justifiable because of the damages, and losses of lives it has created. The war ended approximately 90 years ago. Yet, still in today’s society, people are still going to war. The Great War has killed numerous lives, and put many at stake.

The First World War, or the ill-named War to End all Wars, was one that brought hell to Earth and mankind. For the first time in history, industry had appeared to make killing efficient. In static trenches, young men from around the world were killed by artillery kilometres away, poison gas, and disease. All nations in the conflict experienced the creation of a Lost Generation; men who lost their lives, limbs, or the ability to live a normal life. Paul Baumer, the young German protagonist of All Quiet on the Western Front becomes a member of this sad generation through his sad journey to the ultimate elixir, death. In Erich Remarque’s magnum opus All Quiet on the Western Front, Paul Baumer is faced by various emotionally jarring tests that

Machine guns firing overhead, artillery shells raining down, drowning out the hellish screams of soldiers as they gasp for their last breath. Boys, not quite old enough to be men, lay lifeless in the barb-wired filled No Man’s Land. Long gone are the days of traditional warfare. There is no honour, no glory there are only two things that remain: life and death. The scene in World War 1 was one of gruesome battles of attrition fought in bloody, disease ridden trenches where hundreds of thousands of troops gave their lives to simply gain a kilometer or two of land. The First World War was a culmination of technologies developed over the previous century which resulted in “an orgy of violence to which rifles, machine-guns, flame throwers, artillery

Because of Fritz Haber this world is a better place. His discoveries helped feed Germany and had many good intentions despite the later events. In order to feed Germany Haber figured out how to make nitrogen out of the air in order to make the soil fertile for food growth. This new discovery helped increase the population and stopped the starvation in Germany. He later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his great accomplishments. His discoveries later led to terrible things done in the war, such as gas and bombs used to kill others. The gas he used to grow food was used to create a “chlorine wall” to kill all soldiers in the trenches. Haber was very proud of what he was able to do for his country, but his sense of nationalism overpowered his

World War I was one of the most deadly wars with more than eight million people dead and twenty one million people wounded. It was devastating war that involved many different nations and affected many more. The day that the fighting ended was unlike any seen since the beginning of the war. It was described in a newspaper as “Last night for the first time since August in the first year of the war, there was no light of gunfire in the sky, no spreading glow above black trees where for four years of nights human beings were smashed to death. The fires of hell had been put out” (Perry, Scholl, Davis, Harris, Van Laue pg 634).” And on that day, November 11, 1918, “soldiers on both sides came out of the trenches and cheered” (Perry, Scholl, Davis, Harris, Van Laue pg 634). Both sides were happy for the war to be over, so a

The First World War of 1914-1918, also known as the Great War, was the first total war in history. What began as a European struggle over the balance of power between the triple alliance of France, Britain and Russia on one side and the central powers of Germany and Austria-Hungary on the other, soon became a global conflict that involved the imperial powers of Europe, their colonies and lands such as the Ottoman Empire, Japan and the United States. Although the sheer number of countries involved in the conflict is enough to describe the First World War as a mass war, what makes it total is the fact that it was waged not only against the enemy’s armies, but also against the civilian

The First World War lasted a great period of time, longer then predicted. The extended continuous violent battles during the war resulted in numerous deaths. Many deaths were soldiers, but others were innocent, undeserving people. The death of the soldiers is understandable, but the innocent people dying are not acceptable. Genocide is the deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group. The Arminian Genocide occurred during World War I. During this time the Ottoman Empire tried to extinguish he Armenians, in other words the Ottoman Empire committed genocide on the Armenians. The Armenians faced many human right deprivations and lived in constant fear.

Haber continued his studies until 1933 when new Nazism laws took over and since he was Jewish he basically lost everything he had. Soon afterwards he moved to England but because of heart problems and England’s cold weather at the time, he then later to Switzerland. On January 29, 1934 Fritz Haber died Congestive heart failure at Basel, Switzerland.

At the 11th hour, on the 11th day, of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies, and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead, and 21 million wounded. Each of these countries (Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain) lost at least a million or more lives.

The first world war was a horrible war that affected many places and cost very many