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Gas attacks and gas masks in WW2
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Well if they'd 'vetted' my mums gas mask bag they'd have found her dance shoes in there, not a gas mask. She told me the police (or maybe wardens ?) had the right to stop you and ask to see inside any gas mask bag.
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The Germans did use poison gas on the Eastern Front on at least one occasion. At the end of the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, in May 1942, many Soviet soldiers and civilians sought refuge in the caves and catacombs of Adzhimushkay. The Germans used poison gas to kill them. This may have been the first use of nerve gas in warfare. At the time the Allies had no idea that the Germans had nerve gas, only discovering it when they overran Germany at the end of the war. The reason the Germans did not use it more widely was that they thought the Western Allies had already developed nerve agents of their own and had the means to retaliate in kind. They claimed that their "Nerve Gas" only incapacitated its victims - that was nonsense.
Germans Use Nerve Gas On Kerch Peninsular - GIANT ATTACK MAKES PROGRESS But Success is Still Not Achieved GERMANS CONTINUE THEIR ATROCITIES Lull On Other Fronts - Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954) - 14 May 1942
According to two reports, although there is no mention in the Russian communiques, the Germans are using nerve gas on the Kerch peninsular. This does no harm, it is declared, except stunning its victims who are ...
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Page from a 1939 article on the work of the Air Raid Precautions (ARP) service. Showing the vehicles to be used to wash streets and buildings clean of mustard Gas or other blister agents after a gas attack (The British had no idea the Germans had invented Nerve Gas at that time). Local authorities were obliged to purchase their own decontamination equipment, a move that was criticised at the time. It meant that authorities were competing against each other to purchase equipment, which meant prices skyrocketed. A centralised government scheme would have cut costs and brought economies of scale.
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Well I never knew that, you learn something new every day!The Germans did use poison gas on the Eastern Front on at least one occasion. At the end of the Battle of the Kerch Peninsula, in May 1942, many Soviet soldiers and civilians sought refuge in the caves and catacombs of Adzhimushkay. The Germans used poison gas to kill them. This may have been the first use of nerve gas in warfare. At the time the Allies had no idea that the Germans had nerve gas, only discovering it when they overran Germany at the end of the war. The reason the Germans did not use it more widely was that they thought the Western Allies had already developed nerve agents of their own and had the means to retaliate in kind. They claimed that their "Nerve Gas" only incapacitated its victims - that was nonsense.
Germans Use Nerve Gas On Kerch Peninsular - GIANT ATTACK MAKES PROGRESS But Success is Still Not Achieved GERMANS CONTINUE THEIR ATROCITIES Lull On Other Fronts - Lithgow Mercury (NSW : 1898 - 1954) - 14 May 1942
According to two reports, although there is no mention in the Russian communiques, the Germans are using nerve gas on the Kerch peninsular. This does no harm, it is declared, except stunning its victims who are ...
