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Jad Abumrad

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Right.

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Clara comes from the same town.

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And they're both secularized Jews.

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This was a moment in German history, he says, when Jews had a decent amount of freedom.

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And this is the difference between Kaiser Wilhelm and, of course, Hitler's Germany.

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Yeah.

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Put it in context.

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Dan Charles, he's a historian.

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His was the first generation when a young Jewish boy could truly imagine that he could just be a regular part of that society.

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He could do anything.

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And he believed it.

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Fast forward 10 years, Fritz Haber is a professor.

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Small university.

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He's working with chemicals.

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It's about 1880.

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And he throws himself at one of the central issues facing Germany at that time.

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Germany has a problem.

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A big problem.

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It has enough what they used to call then solar energy.

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You know, energy from the sun to grow crops.