it was difficult to be more of a Nazi than Reichsmarschall Herman Goering. Perhaps that is what makes it so surprising that his younger brother Albert was so different.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.