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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)[reply]

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)[reply]


Stars, men and atoms[edit]

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

Accusations of war crimes[edit]

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)[reply]

The initial source is Fast Food Nation. The author, Eric Schlosser, connected Haber and Strughold through a fair number of documents, including a co-authored paper. Schlosser relied on Tom Bower’s The Paperclip Conspiracy, which chronicled, using declassified documents and interviews, Strughold’s activities in covering up the human experiments performed at Dachau for the Luftwaffe. The Strughold/Haber story is one of hundreds like them, of Nazi scientists brought into the U.S. because of their scientific usefulness, and if their research was performed on involuntary human subjects, the Americans were only too willing to look the other way. There is no doubt that all the scientists working with Strughold were either aware of the human experiments that formed the basis of their research, or performed the experiments themselves. The experiments were mainly involved with high altitude and the effects of cold.
The experiments included throwing people into ice tanks or the North Sea, and monitoring their deaths, often with thermometers put into their orifices, along with heart monitors, etc. The high altitude experiments often were performed by putting Jewish prisoners from Dachau (hundreds died in those experiments) into a state-of-the-art decompression chamber. If the prisoners survived, they were then killed and dissected. The cover-up began when the Germans lost at Stalingrad, when the writing on the wall became evident. Reinhard Gehlen began making his own preparations after Stalingrad:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#gehlen
to eventually become a CIA hero. Paperclip and related programs protected hundreds of Nazi war criminals from prosecution, and if Haber did not perform the experiments himself, his papers written with Strughold were based on the findings of those experiments, and everybody working with Strughold knew full well who the experimental subjects were. Strughold became such an American hero that a library was named after him in Texas, which got the Jewish groups riled up, and Strughold has been dealt with fairly harshly by posterity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus_Strughold
Haber merits the same treatment.
frazier 19:23, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
(I apologize in advance for my english. If anything sounds harsh, please blame it on my language skills. Even though I do strongly disagree with your interpretation of this matter.)
So, if I got you right, Schlosser is still the only reference you have, where a participation of Heinz Haber in the Nazi crimes at the Dachau camp is actually alleged. The mere existence of "files that have been declassified under the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act" doesn't, I'm sorry, prove anything at all. It might be files stating that he was clean or maybe the files don't have anything to do with Nazi War Crimes, but were just declassified because said act applied to anything related to people from Germany before '45 (for instance... not that I know anything about this.) Now the article (Haber and Gauer) Schlosser cites was published in 1950. This is a couple of years after the war, so even if this might suggest some involvement in Nazi "aviation medicine" it is far away from being a proof.
However, according to a biographical work on Haber ("Sterne, Menschen und Atome" by Manfred Gross, Mannheim 2013. You can order it for free (plus shipping I guess) at the city archive in Mannheim, if you like and if you can read German) said article was the result of post-war (!) compilation work. Haber was indeed flying for the Luftwaffe until his injury in '42, but then returned to the KWI of physics in Berlin. There he didn't do anything related to aviation but worked on a spectroscopical device involving a torus grating. This ("Das Torusgitter") was the title of his habilitation work which he handed in in 1944. The certificate of his habilitation issued by the Berlin university is at the city archive in Mannheim, an image of it is displayed in the short biography by Manfred Gross. Finally, if you have a look into the book (http://www.amazon.de/Hundred-Years-Intersection-Chemistry-Physics/dp/3110239531) by Jeremiah James et al (2011) on the history of the Fritz-Haber-Institute (named after the chemistry nobel laureate, not Heinz' brother) you'll find statements on pages 117 and 127 indicating that during the late war years Heinz Haber actually lead a small spectroscopical division of said institute, located in Potsdam at the outskirts of Berlin. A timetable of Haber's life according to the Mannheim City Archive can be found here. https://www.stadtarchiv.mannheim.de/findstar/bestandsuebersicht/frame_bsuebersicht_bestandsinfo.php?nbd_id=389&bestandstyp=akten
In conclusion, I think, right here we have more evidence for the hypothesis "After '42, Heinz Haber worked in spectroscopy at the KWI in Berlin" than for the Dachau-Nazi-Crimes-hypothesis. Considering that Schlosser probably didn't check German archives for proofs of his version, it would not surprising if was mistaken at this point.
Cheers! A student from Munich. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.229.154.255 (talk) 23:58, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Heinz Haber and the death camp experiments.
I have done enough battling with the people at Wikipedia over easily verifiable facts and what people see fit to include in articles. If Haber's article is going to become a whitewash, then the whitewashers had better go try to whitewash his mentor Strughold's article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus_Strughold
All I can say is good luck. For the record, Schlosser cited papers that Haber co-authored, including one with Strughold, to wit:
"Aero Medical Problems of Space Travel", Journal of Aviation Medicine, December 1949, authored by Henry G. Armstrong, Heinz Haber, and Hubertus Strughold.
Armstrong is the man who masterminded bringing Strughold and his team over in Operation Paperclip. Schlosser also referred to Tom Bower's The Paperclip Conspiracy, which is based on documents that were not declassified until the 1980s. Strughold and more than 30 Nazi scientists and doctors came over who were involve with those death camp experiments carried out for the Luftwaffe, and they ended up at Randolph Air Force Base. Strughold was the leader of those Nazi doctors and scientists and actually brought them in under Paperclip. Bower devoted a chapter to Strughold's team from Berlin that lived quite well at Randolph Air Force Base. Haber was one of them.
That even Haber's son would not know what his father did in World War II is not surprising, and the bottom of the issue will probably be forever buried in the USA's classified archives, for what has not already been destroyed. Dr. Werner von Braun also gets tarred with a similar brush, as do hundreds of German scientists who came over after World War II in Operation Paperclip, and I have interesting connections with von Braun:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianbio.htm#mars
I also suggest reading Christopher Simpson's Blowback and The Splendid Blond Beast for more on Operation Paperclip and the "rehabilitation" of Nazis by the CIA and other American interests. Allen Dulles was up to his eyeballs in it, as well as many other black acts:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dulles
The Gehlen Org is what the CIA's intelligence network on the Soviet Union was largely built on.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#gehlen
The bottom line is that there is more than enough documentation to establish Haber's close relationship to Strughold and the experiments that were carried out in the death camps.
Wade Frazier, December 18, 2014
None of your links mention the subject of this article. It's clear that they worked together in the USA, but what does that prove regarding your allegations?--Oneiros (talk) 16:28, 14 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oneiros, you are trolling. Haber is mentioned, as well as Operation Paperclip, which brought him over, including the referenced materials that show how Strughold was very actively involved with covering up the human experiments that became the basis of the Luftwaffe's research on high altitude and cold, and the USA was only too happy to whitewash his bloodstained record. Nobody in Germany, except for maybe some skinheads, are denying that Strughold and his crew (which included Haber) performed those experiments, and a bunch of children were experimented on at Strughold's facility, not at the camps, where most of the experiments were performed. If you want a picture of Haber performing experiments on death camp prisoners before you are willing to admit there is anything to the "allegations," there is nothing to say to you. The existing evidence is far more than enough to mention in a Wikipedia article. Heck, you do not even need to get my cited works, but just surf the Internet for a few minutes. All of the German scientists who came over in Paperclip, especially those who worked with Strughold, were tainted, especially his prized protégé Haber.
Wade Frazier — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wadefrazier (talk • contribs) 12:46, 18 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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Neutral Point of View and Conflict of interests[edit]

This conflict of interest edit of an relative needs to be adressed. This article lacks coverage of Mr Haber's involvement with the third Reich. The removal of such information by a relative violates policy --Tavin (talk) 17:39, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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