Iain Overton, writing for the International Business Times, asks the question – did the Second Battle of Ypres pave the way for the Holocaust?
He writes: “The clouds of gas that billowed across no-man’s land on 22 April had horrific consequences in their own right. But, in terms of the seed they planted in the minds of the Austrians and Germans who condoned the use of gas, they had consequences beyond horror.”
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Posted by: Éadaoin Hegarty, Centenary News