wm wrote: ↑17 Sep 2019, 13:05
jesk wrote: ↑17 Sep 2019, 10:42
And the Germans really had a miracle-weapon, against which the enemy is powerless - tabun.
The Allies had a miracle-weapon too - the strategic bomber that in reprisals could have drenched German cities in mustard gas and salted them with anthrax spores.
Operation Vegetarian anyone?
Everything converges into puzzles. Mustard affects mainly the eyes. Like a regular pepper cylinder. Pouring mustard gas into German cities and general mortality are Churchill's bluffs. Hitler believed him.
Anthrax could fly with FAA missiles. This could be a total terror for London. These missiles did not record air defense and, unlike German cities, residents did not have the opportunity to hide.
good article
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... lions.html
Until now, many believed his reluctance to use these weapons on Allied soldiers stemmed from his own bitter experiences of being gassed during World War I.
As a young soldier, on the night of October 13-14, 1918, near Ypres, Corporal Hitler was exposed to mustard gas released by the British that left him temporarily blind. It ended his war, and apparently left him with a strong desire never to see gas used again.
But now a startling new explanation has come to light. According to Frank J. Dinan, a distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York State, a scientist close to Hitler exaggerated the Allies' capability of hitting back with their own chemical weapons, which caused the Fuhrer to rethink his plans.
If Professor Dinan's extraordinary claim is true, it means that a German scientist, up until now regarded as a war criminal, might be one of the greatest unsung heroes of the 20th century.
Had Hitler instructed the use of Tabun, tens of thousands of Allied troops may have met horrific fates on the Normandy Beaches
In the autumn of 1944, for example, Robert Ley, the head of the German Labour Front, implored Albert Speer to convince Hitler of the merits of nerve gases. 'He must use it!' he pleaded. 'Now he has to do it! When else! This is the last moment!'