Looking for something else entirely I was surprised to come across this July 1950 report in LIFE introducing the horror that is Nerve Gas; another Nazi horror discovered in the last weeks of WW2. The article has a set of helpful illustrations explaining the mechanism by which this powerful new agent affects its victims.
Unfortunately it is a little off-base when it points to the ability of the agents “to destroy the will of enemy troops to resist by literally paralyzing them.”
Ominously it is noted that “some German chemists who worked on the gases are in Russia, developing them for the Soviet.”
The second page helpfully outlines (with newly released photographs) how Allied Forces disposed of the Nazi stockpiles, using “nervous germans” to load the weapons onto trains and then naval gunfire to sink the ship carrying 6,750 tons of nerve gas in the Atlantic. If the germans engaged in the work had any idea what the were working with it is hardly surprising that they were nervous given their total lack of protection.
The nice feature about this is that it uses photos I had not seen in my previous searches for information on historical CW ocean-dumping.
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