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Fritz Haber: The Man Who Invented Chemical Warfare

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Wind Might Change

Chlorine gas killed five thousand allied soldiers in a matter of minutes and horribly wounded another ten thousand. It opened up a gap in the allied lines that allowed the german army to advance more than a mile, which in world war won terms was an enormous gain for that point in the fighting. Sergeant elmer cotton, a canadian who was gased at ypre called the chlorine gas poisoning an equivalent death to drowning, only on dry land. The effects are there asplitting headache and a terrific thirst to drink. But i'm always curious about that. Just s it's like black ba. I mean, did he know the method of the way in which people would die when

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