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Adolf's mother died from cancer. With profits from his best-selling book "Mein Kampf", he donated 100,000 Marks to cancer research he personally commissioned at the University of Jena. Is there a link between cigarette smoking and cancer? Adolf thought so, and the research he commissioned conclusively proved it. There is a very strong link and smokers are very likely to get cancer - as shown by his research results at bottom right. The research was conducted in 1941 at the "Scientific Institute for Research into the Hazards of Tobacco", established at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena. This was the first such institute in the world. With scientific proof to support his initiatives, Adolf made laws forbidding smoking in public places. He started a campaign to tell people how dangerous smoking is and tobacco use fell in Germany. This was the first official anti-smoking campaign in the world. - Smoking was
banned in the offices of the Air Force, postal services. Adolf said: "Before going into retirement, I shall order that all the cigarette packets on sale in Europe should have on the label, in letters of fire, the slogan: 'Danger, tobacco smoke kills; danger: Cancer.'" During the war tobacco rations were distributed to German soldiers. Adolf ordered that it be given in a manner that would dissuade soldiers from smoking. Smokers were given six cigarettes per man per day, but non-smokers got chocolate or extra food. Women in the Wehrmacht were not allowed to smoke at all. The phrase "passive smoking" was coined by Fritz Lickint, author of Tabak und Organismus ("Tobacco and the Organism"). He collaborated in this book with the Nazi Anti-Tobacco League. Because of strong Nazi support for Science and medical research, most scientists, physicians and biologists became Nazi party members. Germans were encouraged to take exercise, eat plenty of vegetables, drink mineral water instead of alcohol and stop smoking. To reduce breast cancer, women were taught self examination. Nowhere else in the world had such a government sponsored health campaign existed up to that time. When the Allies invaded Germany at the end of World War II, on seeing the terrible hunger and deprivations amongst the destitute public, they promptly imported 93,000 tons of tobacco to get Germans smoking again. Cancer <citation> |
He is regarded as the father of tobacco epidemiology To understand the above chart, see that a very heavy smoker is 16.6 times more likely to get lung cancer than a non-smoker. |
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The "black box" or "cockpit recorder" is a recorder used in an aeroplane to determine the cause of a crash, so that faults can be eliminated and increase air safety. "it
was in fact Hitler who first hit on the idea of installing a Black Box
in planes: After the fatal Heinkel crash of Fritz Todt, Hitler's munitions
minister, in February 1942, Field Marshal Erhard Milch told his staff
at a meeting recorded by stenographers that the Führer had asked
him if all important planes could have voice recorders installed in
the cockpit so that the cause of such mystery crashes could be determined." Adolf conceived the "cockpit recorder" after a friend died in an air crash. He ordered that important aircraft should be fitted with a magnetic-wire recording device so that the cause of a crash could be determined. Later magnetic tape would be used for this purpose. The first ever sound recording on magnetic tape is of a speech by Adolf Hitler. Cockpit Recorder <citation> |
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1936 the Olympic Games were held in Berlin, Germany.
A new opening ceremony began two weeks before the 1936 games. At noon on July 20 a Greek “high priestess” and fourteen girls wearing classical robes gathered in the ancient Stadium of Olympia, and used parabolic mirrors to focus the sun’s rays on a wand until it burst into flame. A torch was kindled and a chant sounded: “Oh fire, lit in an ancient and sacred place, begin your race”. Then one of Pindar’s Pythian odes was sung to ancient instruments. After that the Olympic flame was carried by 3,075 relay runners all the way from Greece, passed from torch to torch until it finally lit a huge brazier in the Berlin stadium where huge crowds, and the German Chancellor cheered the official opening of the games. This beautiful and emotional Nazi-created ceremony is still used today, and has become the most popular of any of the Olympic events. The 1936 Olympics were the first to be broadcast on television. Twenty-five large screens were displayed in Berlin, allowing people to see the Games for free. Torch relay <citation> |
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