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2 unusual facts about Dynamit Nobel


Dynamit Nobel

After the death of his younger brother Emil in an 1864 nitroglycerin explosion at the family's armaments factory in Heleneborg, Stockholm, Nobel founded Nitroglycerin AB in Vinterviken, Stockholm.

Dynamit Nobel AG is a German chemical and weapons company whose headquarters was in Troisdorf.



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Heinrich Gattineau

He spent much of the Second World War in Bratislava as a director of Dynamit-Nobel-Fabrik and other Czechoslovakian chemical companies that had been brought under the IG Farben umbrella by the Nazis.