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Poison gas, like solar panels, is a totally hyped-up technology that delivered poor results. The idea of being poisoned by gas is frightening indeed, and on the odd occasion that it worked, the results were disastrous and fatal. Yet, experience showed that changing weather conditions, winds changing direction (ask any coastal dweller and the will explain how generally during the day wind blows onshore and at night reverses) meant that it was very difficult for gas attacks to achieve the main objective an effective weapon system: kill the enemy and not your own troops. By the end of WWI, when fluidity returned to the battlefields, the use of this weapon was basically abandoned by the combatants on both sides.

Gas is just another illustration to show what the deprived human mind is capable off.

Because Hitler was exposed to a gas attack in WWI he feared the Allies would resume use of the weapon in WWII and insisted that all German Troops carry a gas-mask with them at all times. This practice, of carrying a gas-mask, was abandoned by Allied troops very early on in WWII.

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