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Chemical weapons have since washed up on shorelines and been found by fishers, causing injuries and, in some cases, death. Other disposal methods included land burials and incineration. After World War 1, "chemical shells made up 35 percent of French and German ammunition supplies, 25 percent British and 20 percent American". [96]
The Blechhammer (English: sheet metal hammer) (nowadays Blachownia Śląska, district of the City of Kędzierzyn-Koźle) area was the location of Greater German Reich chemical plants, prisoner of war camps, and forced labor camps (German: Arbeitslager Blechhammer; also Nummernbücher). [6]
The redesigned Dresden Museum of Military history has become the main museum of the German Armed Forces. The building itself is 14,000 square meters and has an inside and outside exhibition area of about 20,000 square meters, making it Germany's largest museum. [2] In every aspect, the museum is designed to alter the public's perception of war.
Stacie Peterson, director of exhibitions and collections at the National WWI Museum and Memorial, arranges artifacts on a table as photos of the 100-year-old time capsule’s recovery are ...
Pages in category "World War I museums in Germany" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... Bundeswehr Museum of German Defense Technology; M.
Just by the museum at Linge there is a monument whose inscription dedicates it to the "10,000 French dead whose blood stained this land." Around the memorial, white crosses indicate points were bodies were found and exhumed. The memorial museum at Linge was built between 1973 and 1981 by an association called the "Mémorial du Linge". Near the ...
The German troops encountered the first wave of Russian defenders as they launched a desperate counter-charge. These were the remnants of the 13th Company of the 226th Infantry Regiment—soldiers who had survived the initial gas attack. The Germans recoiled in horror at the sight of the advancing Russians, whose uniforms were bloodied.
A diagram of combined HE-chemical shell for 10.5 cm howitzers with Blue Cross agent. Blue Cross (German: Blaukreuz) is a World War I chemical warfare agent consisting of diphenylchloroarsine (DA, Clark I), diphenylcyanoarsine (CDA, Clark II), ethyldichloroarsine (Dick), and/or methyldichloroarsine (Methyldick). Clark I and Clark II were the ...