tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68540162209239363882024-03-14T07:59:15.860-07:00WWII's Unused Weapon Mystery During WWII, Hitler's Germany had developed and tested three generations of deadly nerve gas. By 1944, it had evolved into a high-grade WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction) and was deployed as cannon shell form onto the Eastern Front. It was never used.Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04812812379429869808noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6854016220923936388.post-18571258721467283992013-12-19T16:55:00.002-08:002014-10-06T09:47:55.677-07:00Germany's Highly Successful WMD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">M</span>ost people today believe nerve
gas to be a weapon developed in modern times when in fact it was initially
created by German scientists during the reign of Adolf Hitler. The first to
discover the first class of G-Series agents was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schrader"><b><span style="color: #10007f; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Dr. Gerhard Schrader</span></b></a>
in December of 1936 (three years after Hiter's ascension to German Chancellor)
as an employee of <a href="http://igfarben.com/"><b><span style="color: #1400ec; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">IG Farben</span></b></a> Company
(makers of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer"><b><span style="color: #1400ec; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bayer</span></b></a>
aspirin and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B"><b><span style="color: #1400ec; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Zyklon B gas</span></b></a>
used in concentration camps during the Holocaust). <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The first nerve gas, Tabun, followed
and within a year the research was patented and then deemed classified by the Nazi
government. Schrader then went on to develop the considerably more potent
version of the gas which was named <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin" target="_blank"><b>Sarin</b></a> (codename T-144), the first formal gas
weapon for intended use by the German Wehrmacht, in 1938. Soon after,
Cyclosarin was developed and deemed too resource-intense to pursue. The most
advanced and lethal form of WWII nerve gas was developed for the Wehrmacht by
Nobel laureate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kuhn"><b><span style="color: #1400ec; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Richard Kuhn</span></b></a>
in 1944. All three of these gas formulas are today classified as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapon_of_mass_destruction"><b><span style="color: #1400ec; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">WMD</span></b></a>'s.
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">To illustrate toxicity, nerve gas
had to then be contained within double glass-lined chambers with a stream of
pressurized air circulating between the walls during its final processing
stage. Even under the best conditions, there were more than 300 accidents with
fatalities occurring to workers wearing poly-layered rubber suits and masks.
Consequently, masked were discarded and destroyed after only a brief usage
period. Sarin, Tabun and Soman were eventually deployed as weapons in
the form of artillery shells. Between 10,000 and 30,000 tons of Tabun were
produced before capture by the Soviet Army at the end of the conflict.
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">So, Why Didn't Nazi Germany Use the
Weapon?</span></h3>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">In Joseph Borkin's book "The Crime and Punishment of IG
Farben" Hitler seemed to be discouraged from using the weapon when it was
reported to him that knowledge of the nerve gas formulation was issued in
scientific publications and easily accessible patent papers. Hitler and the German High Command simply concluded the Allies not only had knowledge but also possessed considerably greater
resources to produce equal if not greater quantities. However, with today's
understanding of Hitler's mindset during the final days in his Berlin bunker
and the total disgust he then expressed for German's failure to push back the
Eastern Front, it's hard to imagine he would have cared about retaliatory
exchanges of nerve gas, especially since he was already resigned to personal
suicide.
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Still, Germany's most lethal
stock pile of weapons was never used. And, at war's end, there remained enough nerve gas to wipe out all or
most life forms across Europe at war's end. Only the Allies' <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bomb"><b><span style="color: #1400ec; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Atomic Bomb</span></b></a> (available
for deployment only after Germany's defeat) could match the destructive power
of Germany's nerve gas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">So, why were these weapons never deployed at war's end?
Was it because Hitler himself suffered significant injuries from mustard gas at
the end of WWI? Perhaps Hitler issued the order to use the gas before his
suicide but the order was never delivered or carried out? Was there a rogue
German conspiracy in place to stop deployment? Did the Russians simply discover
the cache of weapons before the Nazis could load and dispatch them? No
definitive answers have come forward and perhaps never will. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">Ultimately, Nazi Germany's
effort to create and deploy this highly destructive weapon into the field was completely successful. Luckily however, the extensive development, testing and subsequent German lives lost over that 9 year period only resulted in the weapon not being used by war's end.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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