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To: snippy_about_it
Lucky for us Adolf didn't get wind [no pun intended] of the mustard gas. The Germans had invented Sarin and Tabun nerve gasses, which were a lot deadlier than anything we had.

Hitler, having been temporarily blinded by gas in the last months of WWI, seems to have decided against chemical warfare based on that experience. Knowing about Bari might have changed his mind [He also forbade German ground units to use ‘false flag’ tactics for some reason].

15 posted on 04/15/2008 9:29:29 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: PzLdr

You’d think that Hitler would have used gas towards the end, especially on the Russian Front. I guess it’s the first case of the MAD theory in action.


22 posted on 04/16/2008 3:25:42 AM PDT by SAMWolf (Huckabee & McCain say -- Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.)
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Hi PzLdr. I was reading about this in Day of Battle the continuation of Army at Dawn and it was the first I had heard of it. Of course I understand why nothing could be said but I wish the medical folks could have recognized it for those there that day. Sad.


28 posted on 04/16/2008 3:13:15 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (The FReeper Foxhole. America's history, America's soul.)
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