Germany, nerve agent production

It seems clear from this and remarks made earlier in his career that Churchill was prepared to contemplate the use of CW in what he saw as a just cause. The discovery of the very toxic nerve agents by Schrader in Germany just before and during WWII was a major surprise, as already stated, to the Allied Powers, and the acquisition by the Soviet Union of the major German nerve agent production plants at DUhernfurt on the River Oder, now Dyhernfurth, Silesia, Poland, immediately after WWII, was seen as... 

Use of mustard gas in the Italian Ethiopian campaign 1936-1945 Discovery and production of nerve gases in Germany 1938-1941 Probable use of mustard gas and other chemical agents in the Sino-Japanese Manchurian war... 

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