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Other obvious falsehoods within his statement may have been intended to serve the same purpose. He may have simply wanted a cover story to save himself without providing any long term comfort to Germany s enemies. His own role in the SS with the application of Zyklon B, albeit for life saving work, would have given him additional reason to be fearful about his own future. 

British Military Court. (1947). Hamburg, Germany, The Zyklon B Case, Trial of Bruno Tesch and Two Others, March 1-8, in United Nations War Crimes Commission, Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Vol. 1, pp. 93-103, http //www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military Law/pdf/Law-Reports Vol-l.pdf... 

Haber, Fritz (1868-1934) A chemist and teacher of Jewish heritage (later a convert to Christianity) born in Germany, Haber developed the Haber process to produce ammonia used in fertilizers, animal feed, and explosives, for which he was awarded the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. At Berlin s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute (later the Haber Institute) between 1911 and 1933, he developed chlorine gas used in World War I, experimented with the extraction of gold from seawater, and oversaw production of Zyklon B, the cyanide-based pesticide that was employed at extermination camps during World War II. 

ZYKLON. Zyklon is a German trademark granted on 8 April 1920 and used for assorted formulations of toxic substances used initially as disinfectants, fumigants, and rodenticides but later used as a means of mass killings of humans. While no Zyklon formulation is known to have been used in combat as a chemical weapon (CW), the development of Zyklons was a direct outgrowth of Germany s World War I CW program. Furthermore, the continued development of... 

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