Fred Koch built a High Octane Fuel Refinery for Hitler in Hamburg (after building many for Stalin) - without which the Luftwaffe & Hitler would not have had high performance fighters, and therefore WW2 may never even have happened

Charles Koch does not like to mention this..
http://www.spitfireperformance.com/spit1vrs109e.html

" a difference of only 13 points in octane number made possible the defeat of the Luftwaffe by the R.A.F. in the Fall of 1940. This difference, slight as it seems .....spells the difference between defeat & victory"

Later ME-109F's used Hi Octane btw
( a friend of mine knew Spitfire test pilot Jeffrey Quill quite well btw ...)
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