Word: wilhelmsburg
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Slowly the invisible cloud took on impalpable bulk and was wafted by a light breeze across the River Elbe toward Wilhelmsburg. Adults and children dropped without knowing why. Cattle fell as though poleaxed. Dogs, cats, chickens, ducks died gasping, and trees, shrubs, grass began to shrivel. The phosgene drifted over an amusement park. Chubby children with toy balloons crumpled down and let the colored rubber spheres go soaring upward prettily to pure untainted upper air. As the gas spread a little way, a merry wedding breakfast party found their food and bubbling champagne unpalatable, and most collapsed. By now however...
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