[hinckley buzzard]

One wonders, given Hitler's insane obsession with Russia, why he never used gas in his vast eastward invasion, especially to subdue Leningrad, Moscow and Stalingrad, Russian cities whose stout defense blunted Barbarossa. He would have had the wind at his back.

[Trod Upon]

I once heard in a lecture that Hitler himself was a victim of gas in WWI, was blind for several days, and came away with such a horror of it that, for fear of it being used by the Allies, he gave orders that it not be used by Germany. The ubiquitous gas mask canister of the German uniform was the result of the assumption that the allies would eventually use gas.