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I have found two very interesting papers in a repository which seems to me as a veritable cornucopia of info for us AH-ers.

The repository is the Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library.

* The first paper is a report by Generalleutnant Hermann Ochsner [1], History of German chemical warfare in World War II. Part I, the military aspect.

It is very interesting because it gives sensible reasons [2] why the germans did not use chemical weapons in WWII. It is also extremely interesting since Tabun and Sarin are mentioned only as:
Two new chemical agents — Tabun and Sarin — had been so far developed that production could be commenced, but it only started during the war. Both acutely affected the central nervous system. They were not malodorous and were non-irritant. Strict secrecy was maintained on their composition, which was unknown to me.
Note that even a man in his capacity had nearly no information about nerve gases, about their actual production and no hinting whatsoever about their horrendous potency.

* The second paper is Enemy capabilities for chemical warfare by the US War Department Military Intelligence Service.

What makes this paper hair raising it that is is a July 1943 classified (at that time) report about Axis nations chemical capabilties. Read it, with the perspective given by the knowledge of the G-agents program: the allies not only did know nothing about german developments, they did not even suspect that anything might be brewing... imagine what could have been Hitler decisions if that document had ended on this desk :eek:.

[1] chief of Germany's chemical warfare division
[2] i.e. reasons not entailing the presumed Hitler's PTSD w.r.t. to chemical warfare.
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