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Should Germany have used poison gas in WW1?

The War That Changed the World

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How did the technological and industrial development revolutionise war? Did Germany really use methods that were so different from other countries? German leaders were forced to accept 鈥榤oral responsibility鈥� for the war at the Treaty of Versailles but German historian S枚nke Neitzel explores the circumstances around this switch in tactics to industrial warfare. (Photo: German soldiers taking advantage of a suitable wind to emit poison gas from cylinders, January 1915.) (Credit: Henry Guttmann/Getty Images)

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