Hitler

Hitler was trying to melt all the steel and then use dark magicks to make a golem to punch a hole in the moon, so that he could build a moon base powered by golems animated by, ironically, Jewish magic. So once the moon base was fully powered it could be used as a spaceship to explore the outer edges of the universe for a metal that wasn't held together with raw human emotion.

This was all part of Hitler's plan to find a non emotion based metal. So, there's the secret history of WWII.