Jad Abumrad

It was developed in his institute.

He knew about it.

In fact, his chemist had given this particular pesticide a smell.

It was a warning smell so that people didn't inadvertently breathe it in and get sick.

But after the Nazis take over... This is after he died.

They reach back to the shelf and they find this Zyklon stuff.

And they ask for it to be reformulated to take out the warning smell.

And it becomes Zyklon B, the killing gas of the concentration camps.

Did members of Haber's family die in the concentration camps?

Yeah, members of his extended family did.

Certainly friends of his did.

So, how do you feel about him now?

Because, I don't know, I can't help but feel bad for the guy.

Despite the chlorine gas, he didn't intend for that to happen.

He could have never imagined that.

No, but there's part of me...

It says, you know, here's a guy who just wanted to do everything better than it had ever been done before, whether it was feeding or killing.

And he does.

And he does.

But he does it with a kind of amoral athleticism.