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1 month ago0 points(+0/-0)1 child
''Always''?
You're talking about the people that brought flamethrowers & mustard gas in the trenches of WWI?
Oh, they were honorable in WWII alright, but they weren't always like that. And I pray their violence shows again. So far they seem to have been eunuched and they don't mind.
1 month ago6 points(+0/-0/+6Score on mirror)1 child
Actually, that would be the French, who started using ethyl bromoacetate in 1914.
Which is both more irritating and lethal than chlorine, but wasn't available in large enough quantities to have a meaningful impact.
> Ethyl bromoacetate is listed by the World Health Organization as a riot control agent, and was first employed for that purpose by French police in 1912.[4] The French army used rifle grenades 'grenades lacrymogènes'[5] filled with this gas against the Germans beginning in August 1914, but the weapons were largely ineffective, even though ethyl bromoacetate is twice as toxic as chlorine.[6][a] In the early months of the war the British also used the weaponized use of tear gas agents and more toxic gasses including sulfur dioxide.[7] The German army then used these attacks to justify their subsequent employment of it as odorant or warning agent in odorless, toxic gases and chemical weapons in 1915 under the German code Weisskreuz (White Cross).[8]
You're talking about the people that brought flamethrowers & mustard gas in the trenches of WWI?
Oh, they were honorable in WWII alright, but they weren't always like that. And I pray their violence shows again. So far they seem to have been eunuched and they don't mind.
An efficient weapon, but neither honorable nor humane.
Which is both more irritating and lethal than chlorine, but wasn't available in large enough quantities to have a meaningful impact.