Obsessed amateur scientist had family connection to Joseph Goebbels

An amateur scientist with a family connection to Joseph Goebbels created a ‘huge bang’ when he accidentally set fire to heroin vials he had put on bonfire, a court heard. Harry Whittaker, 33, stored homemade explosives, together with radioactive and lethal poisons in a garden shed he called ‘The Laboratory’ where he carried out his experiments. He created the label ‘Zyklon B’ for his cyanide sample, naming it after the poison used in the Holocaust. Whittaker, who referred to Pakistani…