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To: DogByte6RER

Although the Germans never used it they had nerve gas.

In General Patton’s diary, he mentions that a captured German soldier told them a barge on the Rhine was carrying deadly gas. Patton ordered the barge to not be attacked and sure enough, it contained just what the German said it did.


4 posted on 01/22/2013 6:58:00 PM PST by yarddog (One shot one miss.)
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To: yarddog
One wonders, given Hitler's insane obsession with Russia, why he never used gas in his vast eastward invasion, especially to subdue Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad, Russian cities whose stout defense blunted Barbarossa. He would have had the wind at his back.
6 posted on 01/22/2013 7:04:39 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: yarddog; DogByte6RER

Modern pesticides were derived from German nerve gas.


7 posted on 01/22/2013 7:05:03 PM PST by bigheadfred
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