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Originally Posted by Solace
It's all in German, and ****.
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And - what...?
Google Bot Translation:
Nobel's attitude to the war
Nobel's dynamite and blasting gelatin key inventions were contrary to popular opinion not suitable for warfare. Only the smokeless powder Ballistit is an exception. It revolutionized the whole shooting technique, from the gun to the gun. The wealth of his father founded mainly on the Crimean War and the Civil War, where he had earned from the production of mines. Nobel hated the war, though, but felt a particularly strong and terrible weapon of destruction would deter mankind from war and wanted to dedicate his work to this goal. In 1894 he even bought the Swedish arms company Bofors. With his explosives, he wanted to revolutionize the black powder and improve the work of his father, even his inquiring mind, a factor of development.
On these views, he also discussed intensively with Bertha von Suttner, who had in 1878 adopted at the site of a job advertisement Nobels private secretary, but she already gave up a week later. She later became a major peace activist and probably the permanent correspondence with her impressed Nobels later attitude to the war and encouraged him to the foundation of a Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to Bertha von Suttner 1905.