Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Untried Weapon. Almost as a reflex of such dismal ideas, the question whether poison gas should be used against Japan rose again in the U.S. press. Among military thinkers, the consensus was that gas would save Allied lives if poured into cave defenses in the enemy's home islands. However, the final decision did not lie with military thinkers, but in the realm of politics and public morals. The U.S. has a great and valued reputation throughout the world as a civilized, humane nation ; in the last analysis the people themselves would have to decide whether to abandon that...
...dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell...
Minutes later Admiral Hans Georg von Friedeberg, who had sat hollow-eyed and aloof during his fourth surrender of World War II, excused himself from his personal guard, locked a toilet door behind him, and killed himself with poison. Later, his body was photographed where it lay under a picture of Doenitz...
Security officers rushed to the camp. They took him to a brick villa outside Lüneburg, stripped him, found a tiny blue glass vial of poison in his clothes. Then a British sergeant major and a doctor searched him-under his arms, in his ears, his hair. Finally the doctor decided to look into Himmler's mouth. The prisoner quickly ground his jaws, and fell to the floor. He had concealed a second poison vial in his mouth, and had broken it with his teeth. The potassium cyanide worked quickly:* in 15 minutes he was dead...
...chemical warfare officer who watched the searing attack might well have shaken his head at the thought that international treaties have barred poison gas as too inhumane for "civilized" warfare. Except for Washington official policy, Pacific field commanders in general would like to have a free hand to use gas, if using it would save U.S. soldiers' lives; not all of them would agree that gas is effective enough to be worth the trouble. But there are few arguments now about fire: it saves U.S. lives and it kills Japs...