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Poison Gas

Germany · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1915Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1915

Fritz Haber22 April 1915

Ypres · Warfare / World War, 1st

Haber helps prepare chlorine gas use at Ypres.

Albrecht of Wurttemberg22 April 1915

Ypres · Warfare / World War, 1st

Poison gas is first used on the Western Front, in a German attack on Canadian troops at Ypres

Names involved

Albrecht of WurttembergFritz Haber

Provenance

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