On the lower right you see large glass bottles known as carboys (although the bottle collectors call them demijohns). What's odd to me is I thought the tops of these bottles were closed with large corks but here we see fitted glass stoppers like the kind you see on liquor decanters.

[Or in a chemistry lab. Which is basically what this is. - Dave]

My guess here is he is actually cooking crude oil to distill the gasoline from it. This would presumably go into the metal jerrycans and be sold to motorists ... likely not very good quality fuel.

[An interesting interpretation. This is from a series of pictures taken at government research facilities during the war. - Dave]

This doesn't look like a very pleasant place to work but everything sort of fits. Everything except that knife and spoon on the floor. One can only imagine.

We can clearly see that the fork did not run away with the spoon. That was just the story the family cooked up for the press. In reality, the spoon met up with the two knives we see here - one a husky butter knife, the other a slender, fast-talking letter opener who said "see?" a lot - and it ended in a bloody three-way murder, probably whacked by the shovel.

There are just SO many things wrong here.