A footnote to history

A German soldier wrote an autobiographical account of his experiences in the trenches  

A few hours later, my eyes had turned into glowing coals it had grown dark around me. 

Thus I came to the hospital at Pasewalk in Pomerania, and there I was fated to experience - the greatest villainy of the century. [...] 

This was written in Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler he was in hospital recovering from expected blindness caused by a mustard gas attack when Germany surrendered ( the greatest villainy of the century ), and there he resolved to reverse Germany s defeat. It was Hitler s rise to power that was the cause of Haber leaving Germany in 1933. 

Despite huge stockpiles, and German superiority in developing new chemical warfare agents (including nerve gas), Hitler never used chemical weapons during World War II. 

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A FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY WAS BOTULINUM TOXIN USED IN THE ASSASSINATION OF REINHARD HEYDRICH ... 

It s a footnote to history that Doering and Woodward knew, or thought they knew, that someone eke, Paul Rabe, had already shown in the early years of the twentieth century how to achieve the final step, so they thought it wasn t necessary to go that far themselves. Controversy raged for a long time about whether the earlier work was valid if it wasn t, then Doering and Woodward s synthesis wouldn t have been complete. In the end, as recently as 2008, it was shown that the original work done nearly a century earlier was indeed valid. 

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