What if in the course of designing the Paris Gun, the Germans realize that the small high explosive load provides a poor return on the investment and decide to use poison gas shells instead? Thus on March 21st 1918, the
city of Paris is bombarded with 21 mustard gas shells over the course of
the day and thereafter, get hits with 15-20 gas shells a day at random
hours day and night.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun
"Ed Stasiak" wrote in message >news:0086a4c1-f233-45ab-a91e-865dc58b48c4@googlegroups.com...
What if in the course of designing the Paris Gun, the Germans realize that >> the small high explosive load provides a poor return on the investment and >> decide to use poison gas shells instead? Thus on March 21st 1918, the
city of Paris is bombarded with 21 mustard gas shells over the course of
the day and thereafter, get hits with 15-20 gas shells a day at random
hours day and night.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Gun
Upon the arrival of the first gas shell, regardless of casualties, rumor >alone would have been enough to trigger a mass panic and stampede out of >town. Paris wasn't surrounded like in 1871...
Germany did all sorts of outrageous things in WW1 from 1914 onwards particularly against the Belgians
"The Horny Goat" wrote in message >news:tbs8meh1obhni9h5o51psoq305uk8atngf@4ax.com...
Germany did all sorts of outrageous things in WW1 from 1914 onwards
particularly against the Belgians
I guess they thought the Belgians would give them free passage on their way >to Paris. The fact that Belgium put up a fight threw a monkey wrench into
the workings of their all-important Schlieffen plan, and the Huns never got >over that...
Germany did all sorts of outrageous things in WW1 from 1914 onwards particularly against the Belgians - I'm not aware of any mass roundup
and shooting of civilians in WW2 (which happened in 1914 when 6000
Belgian civilians were rounded up and shot in a single group)...
...with the obvious exception of Jews who felt into the hands of
Einzatzgruppen SS WHILE STILL IN THE FIELD...
The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
Germany did all sorts of outrageous things in WW1 from 1914 onwards
particularly against the Belgians - I'm not aware of any mass roundup
and shooting of civilians in WW2 (which happened in 1914 when 6000
Belgian civilians were rounded up and shot in a single group)...
Where did this happen? There were many mass shootings by the Germans
in 1914, but I never heard of one of this magnitude.
...with the obvious exception of Jews who felt into the hands of
Einzatzgruppen SS WHILE STILL IN THE FIELD...
The Babi Yar massacre occurred 10 days after Kiev was occupied by
the Germans. And while Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C did
most of the killing, Ukrainian auxiliaries and Wehrmacht police
participated.
I have read that during the early part of BARBAROSSA, the Germans
captured a Soviet maternity hospital. The Germans decided they
wanted to use the hospital for German wounded, so they had all
the patients removed and "disposed of".
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