Adolf Hitler was famously against using chemical weapons on the battlefield but chemistry and biological sciences still played a role in the Nazi's unquenchable quest for power. Nazis turned pesticide research on its head with tabun and sarin, used in one of the greatest genocides in human history. What would have happened had the Nazis rolled out their new nerve angels? And though Nazi entomologists worked to prevent the spread of malaria, the same research is also mobilized for darker purposes. As the Allies close in, top Nazi brass are given a final escape hatch, a cyanide capsule to help them evade capture.
Up Next in Secret Nazi Science - Season 1
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Raining Death
What would it take to bomb the Allies into the ground? This was the question on the minds of top Nazi brass as they mobilized Germany's top scientists to create frightening new bombs. It was a history of firsts, from the Fritz X, the world's first precision guided weapon deployed during combat, t...
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The Future Aryan Soldier
Far from the front lines, Nazi scientists were tasked with creating the perfect Aryan soldier for the Thousand Year Reich. From mundane questions of survival to creating a stronger and better fighter, the Nazis used science to study the human constitution and its limits. Propaganda indoctrinated ...
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Bending the Elements
In the early days of WWII, the Royal Air Force assumed that the bomber would always get through, so then how were the Germans picking off bombers with incredible efficiency? German radar stations and systems sprung up along coastlines, harnessing the power of frequencies to help them plot their n...
