== Historical Perspective == 

 The history of water fluoridation as presented here unfortunately misses a few important chapters. First of all, the article does not mention that ALCOA, the company H.V. Churchill worked for, stands for the American Aluminum Company, then the worlds largest producer of sodium fluoride (as a byproduct of aluminium). This connection is important. Secondly, the protocol for water fluoridation was originally developed by European (not American) researchers. The actual first application of fluoride to drinking water did not happen after the Second World War, but during the war, in Nazi prisoner camps. This was admitted in a booklet called "The Truth about Water Fluoridation" Books quoting Charles E. Perkins "The Truth about Water Fluoridation" by the American research chemist Charles E. Perkins in 1952. After the WWII, Perkins had been sent by the US to take charge of the vast IG Farben chemical plants in Germany. The German chemists told Perkins of a scheme which they had devised during the war and had been adapted by the German General Staff. The German chemists explained of their attempt to influence the population in any given area through the mass medication of drinking water with sodium fluoride, a tactic used in German and Russian prisoner of war camps to make the prisoners "stupid and docile"(Stephen 1995). Farben had developed plans during the war to fluoridate the occupied countries because it was found that fluoridation caused slight damage to a specific part of the brain, making it more difficult for the person affected to defend his freedom and causing the individual to become more docile towards authority (Fluoride remains one of the strongest anti-psychotic substances known, and is contained in twenty-five percent of the major tranquilizers). Perkins' account corroborated individual stories by various POWs. One of these was Dr. E.H. Bronner, who was a nephew of the great Albert Einstein. His account about the dangers of water fluoridation and its application by the Nazis was published in the Catholic Mirror, Springfield, MA, January 1952. 

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