Penicillin

“Although the Germans were well aware that the Allies had penicillin they never succeeded in producing it on a large scale, a fact which was a major contributory factor in their final defeat. There was some debate as to the legality of preventing penicillin-producing culture from reaching the enemy since it could be argued that in International Law it was illegal to distinguish between friendly and enemy wounded Despite this, the military potential of the new drug was fully recognized and, perhaps not surprisingly, cultures of Fleming’s mould were not dispatched to Nazi scientists and doctors” (Wainwright, 65).