Posted on 07/31/2022 11:56:14 AM PDT by DallasBiff
.On the German side of this horror show stood Fritz Haber. Small, bald, and potbellied, he gazed across the battlefield through pince-nez glasses at his country’s enemies: the British, the French, and their dominion forces. Wrapped in a fur coat against the chill of the late April evening, the German-Jewish chemist prepared the signal. In front of him were 6,000 metal tanks containing his creation. At six in the evening, the wind was just right to put his plan into action. With his typical Virginian cigar hanging below his trimmed mustache, he gave the signal.
(Excerpt) Read more at medium.com ...
Very interesting, ironic, and tragic piece of history.
It was news to me as well. Thanks for posting.
Funny how fertilizer is now viewed as contributing to global warming so he will be viewed as even more of a bad guy.
I think you can see why...
Wrapped in a fur coat against the chill of the late April evening, the German-Jewish chemist prepared the signal. In front of him were 6,000 metal tanks containing his creation. At six in the evening, the wind was just right to put his plan into action. With his typical Virginian cigar hanging below his trimmed mustache, he gave the signal.
...
The shelling ceased. The valves were opened. 168 tons of chlorine gas was released into the world.
Who but God could judge a life such as this.
Thanks for the link. Interesting.
Deut. 29:29: The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. KJV
the globull warmists are busy undoing his good
I, luckily, have never been put into battle, but of all recent modern wars, World War I, had to be the worst for the soldiers, followed by The American Civil War.
WW2 was pretty bad too. I had a relative who fought his way from north Africa and north through Italy. He never got a shower from September till April. At night machines came in to drill holes in the ground for them to sleep in. He said some of them slept with their arm sticking up out of the hole thinking they might get wounded and go home. He said you can’t understand until you experience it.
Just because you can make a weapon and use it doesn’t mean you should
Oh I understand, my Uncle was part of D-Day, and he never talked about it.
I guess it is crass to rate soldier conditions during war, because war is hell.
The biggest tragedy of WW 1 is that America got involved. It was the biggest step on the way to Empire and led directly to WW 2 and the aftermath. We stay out, the countries sue for peace and withdraw home to lick their wounds.
They were all apparently completely unprepared for the horrors unleashed by the weapons they used.
It's been said that the reason population centers were targeted in WWII was due to the belief that the clamor by the people for an end to it all would hasten peace talks.
Thnx for posting
bkmk
Self-explanatory.
This is the history geek in me, but why were Paris and Prague were unscathed, when held by the nazi's.
I can understand Churchill firebombing Dresden, as a revenge towards London.
Been to Dresden, and they rebuilt well.
And we continue to do this while Biden, Pelosi and Kerry’s sons sit on the boards of companies in Ukraine.
My great grandfather had the misfortune of being in the Canadian Expeditionary Force with the 82nd British on this day. Needless to say he never talked about it and we didn’t know until after he died and I inherited his old box of military memorabilia.
Karma kicked him in the ass, but not soon enough.
Ironic that he, a Jew, invented the gas used to kill the Jews in Auschwitz.
I remember seeing men with deformed faces when I was young. I asked my mother about them and she explained to me that they were gassed in WWI.
Really sad. 😢
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.