How 1921: Deadly Chemical Works Collapse News Coverage Stole My Life
1921: Deadly Chemical Works explosion in Germany is one of the most notorious cases of chemical disasters. On this day in 1921, an unknown person broke into the Chemistry Research Institute (which was located in Tubingen, Germany) and started shooting chemicals. The institute’s head, Doctor Kurtz, tried to stop the attack by closing all the labs but forgot to lock the door. A few moments later the attacker ran out of the building and into the street, where he shot and killed Doctor Kurtz, making it impossible to identify the person.
This incident received a great deal of international media attention, with many newspapers publishing front-page news stories on the event. At first, the death toll was too high for the German authorities to take control of the situation. As news of the explosion spread, more people began to join the ranks of those who had lost their loved ones in the tragedy. German officials, in an effort to bring the investigation to a close, set up a commission that consisted of a prosecutor, a representative from the World Health Organization, and a representative from the League of Nations.
Although there were several explosions that took place in the German capital, the world news wasn’t as interested in these. They focused instead on the story of the dead doctor. They wrote about his ‘brutal murder’ and wrote that it was a great crime that shocked the world.’ There were no more details on the circumstances of the explosion, but the world soon learned that the man who committed the deed was a member of the German National Socialist Party.
When the world news got back to Germany, the entire country had been rocked by the scandal. Kaiser Wilhelm II was deposed and the National Socialist parties were banned. The explosion and the subsequent arrests of its perpetrators marked the beginning of the Freedom period. All newspapers, radio, and television were banned, as were most of the newsstands.
When it comes to world news, you can expect to hear about almost everything. There are world wars, natural disasters, terrorist attacks, celebrity gossip, politics, and sometimes even controversial news stories. In early twenty-first-century Germany, the story of the gas chambers was covered extensively. There were reports of systematic mass murder in the Third Reich, but very little was written about it. Nobody knew that there had been such a thing as a “gas chamber” until the Allies entered the scene and found thousands of bodies in the ruins of the Third Reich’s capital.
When the news got back to the United States, the world news coverage was huge. Presidential candidates, world leaders, news anchors, and even the media reporters were covering the explosion and the story of the dead doctor. As you can see, it wasn’t just a story about a German doctor. World news coverage was of such importance that when the Berlin Wall collapsed and the Cold War broke out, Americans were prepared for the worst.
You have to wonder why the world news coverage of the 1921 explosion got so big. There were many factors that could have led to that level of worldwide news coverage. The first of these factors was World War I. Once the world war started, everybody wanted to be on the winning side and so news of the victories of one side was almost a feeding frenzy.
No story of the time was too small or too big for the world news outlets. The newspaper cuttings from the New York Times and the London Evening News made it into the headlines around the world. The explosion was a huge global event. It is something that has happened before and something that will happen again.