2 minutes agoSecret documents published on production of chemical weapons from Germany in 1960
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)German and American military files recently provided by a team of journalists are in conflict with the current statements of the German government. War, Auschwitz, chemical weapons: never again. That is what Germany's New Federal Republic swore after the horrors of both world wars. In World War I, the kingdom [...] was responsible
War, Auschwitz, chemical weapons: never again. That is what Germany's New Federal Republic swore after the horrors of both world wars.
In World War I, the German kingdom was responsible for the use of poisonous gas, and chemical weapons fired by German chemists, including Zyklon B, in which the Nazi regime used it until 1945 in mass killings during the Holocaust, reports “DW” Transmission Periscope.
20 years later, the government of West Germany planned to break this taboo. In 1961, West Germany launched a debate on a top-secret meeting with NATO.
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Documents that have now been discovered, and made available by a team of media journalists like “ND”, “WDR” and the prestigious German newspaper “Suddeutsche Zeitung” suggests that in 1963, West Germany's Minister of Defence Kai-Wee von Hasse secretly asked the United States to supply his government with chemical weapons.
The Pentagon was willing to interact in such a situation.
The surprising <x0). “They approved it as a simple weapons system”.
At the same time, from 1962 to at least in 1968, a small group of Bundesehr officials had planned for possible chemical attacks in the general inspector's instructions and in consultation with interior ministers and deputy ministers.
The documents suggest that 14,000 tonnes of chemical weapons for Bundesehri have been secured by the United States, if war erupts, using artillery and air forces to deploy them against Warsaw Pact troops.
In 1966, a secret ball known as “ABC think tank” was developed in the town of Bravaria in Sonthofen, southern Germany.
In 1967, a team of experts led a war game coded by “Damocles” in the region around Brauschweig in northern Germany, in which battles have been simulated in the use of chemical weapons have been simulated.
However, in 1968, German Defence Minister Gerhard Schroeder decided at the time not to plan any preparations for an active deployment of chemical weapons from Bundeseyhr at the moment.” Despite this decision, the group continued to research the field.
The German government and Bundesehri had always strongly denied that there was a planning to deploy chemical weapons.
Under an international agreement, West Germany had banned the use of chemical arms factories. /Periscopi/
