Talk:Heinz Haber
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I am Heinz Haber's youngest son, Marc Haber, living in Mannheim, Germany. I have removed references to the NSDAP and alleged experiments my father has been reported here to have done on prisoners in Dachau. I have never heard of that and would like to have the claim substantiated by citeable sources before Wikipedia can accuse my father of nazi crimes. -- Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber, mh+en-wikipedia-heinz-haber@zugschlus.de
- Dear Marc Haber,
searching for biographical information on your father to answer a question in a mailing-list for history of astronomy, I learned that not only your father Heinz, but (according to NASA) also your uncle Fritz worked in the american institute of Strughold in Texas. Can you give some biographical information on Fritz Haber? And do you know, on what projects both were working? It seems to me that sometimes both persons are not distinguished in literature. --Siffler 20:06, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
- Thinks are unfortunately a even more complicated. There is a second Dr. Fritz Haber in history who is not identical to my uncle. The other Fritz Haber (1868-1934) was a chemist who was inventor of the Haber-Bosch-Verfahren to synthesize ammonia. Otoh, the other Fritz Haber was a pioneer in development of chemical weapons. My uncle, Fritz Haber, mentioned in the article about my dad, was an engineer. My dad developed the parabolic flight to simulate weightlessness, and they flew my uncle in to build an instrument showing the pilot whether the aircraft is still on the correct parabolic flight path. My uncle later moved to Connecticut and founded (?) cosmotec, inc, a company that did interesting things with parts for aircraft. I was pretty young back then and do not remember much about my uncle - he was in connecticut and I was in germany.
-- Marc 'Zugschlus' Haber, mh+en-wikipedia-heinz-haber@zugschlus.de Zugschlus 20:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Stars, men and atoms
I read a Chinese translation of the book "Stars, Men and Atoms" as a child growing up in Hong Kong and was really fascinated by it. I'm surprised to see no mention of any of Haber's writings in this page -- Ming Chan
[edit] Accusations of war crimes
I remember reading Fast Food Nation, which had a bit about Haber and accused him of war crimes prior to his employment by Disney. The endnote for that bit reads in part (I don't have the book with me at the moment, and the original page is restricted by Google Book Search) "I pieced together Heinz Haber's wartime behavior from the following: Otto Gauer and Heinz Haber, "Man Under Gravity-Free Conditions," in German Aviation". This is more than a little vague (I remember there being more to the endnote, but it was something like a year ago that I read it, and that's all I can see on the Google Book Search page) and I apologize for that, but I've definitely seen accusations of war crimes published by a reputable source.
Attempting my own research, both names appear on this Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act chart. Gauer has a file (class 105, file 011336, section 001, NARA box 040, location 230 86/14/02, FBI class name (Formerly Internal Security, Foreign Intelligence)), as does Haber (class 105, file 010639, section 001, NARA box 067, location 230 86/14/06, FBI class name (Formerly Internal Security, Foreign Intelligence)). (From [1], linked to from the index at [2].) This doesn't mean anything conclusive; it just means that a file exists. I can't tell if these files are available through archives.gov or not at this point, but if someone can acquire them, it would be much appreciated. (I've sent a request to a library helpdesk in the meantime.) grendel|khan 19:23, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
