Veritasium recently released a video on the history and double-edged nature of early 20th century synthetic chemical research, the German chemical giant BASF and the Nobel prize-winning chemist Fritz Haber, inventor of both synthetic fertilizer and chemical weapons.
Here is a video with historian MakingHistory mostly agreeing with the historical perspective, but adding more context and detail along with a few minor corrections, while also guarding a bit against Veritasium's implied moral perspective.
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Veritasium original: