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Exploring the history of the gas mask in Germany from 1915 to the eve of the Second World War, Peter Thompson traces how chemical weapons and protective technologies like the gas mask produced new relationships to danger, risk, management and mastery in the modern age of mass destruction. Recounting the apocalyptic visions of chemical death that circulated in interwar Germany, he argues that while everyday encounters with the gas mask tended to exacerbate fears, the gas mask also came to symbolize debates about the development of military and chemical technologies in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. He underscores how the gas mask was tied into the creation of an exclusionary national community under the Nazis and the altered perception of environmental danger in the second half of the twentieth century. As this innovative new history shows, chemical warfare and protection technologies came to represent poignant visions of the German future.
Gas masks --- Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous --- History --- War use. --- Gas --- Gas in war --- Gas warfare --- Chemical warfare --- War (International law) --- Breathing apparatus --- War use
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Terrorism --- Chemical warfare --- Biological warfare --- Gas masks --- Protective clothing --- Prevention --- Equipment and supplies --- Quality control. --- Safety measures. --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Equipment --- Inventory control. --- Masks --- United nations --- Political science --- History --- Technology & engineering --- Crafts & hobbies
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The First World War introduced the widespread use of lethal chemical weapons. In its aftermath, the British government, like that of many states, had to prepare civilians to confront such weapons in a future war. Over the course of the interwar period, it developed individual anti-gas protection as a cornerstone of civil defence. Susan R. Grayzel traces the fascinating history of one object - the civilian gas mask - through the years 1915-1945 and, in so doing, reveals the reach of modern, total war and the limits of the state trying to safeguard civilian life in an extensive empire. Drawing on records from Britain's Colonial, Foreign, War and Home Offices and other archives alongside newspapers, journals, personal accounts and cultural sources, she connects the histories of the First and Second World Wars, combatants and civilians, men and women, metropole and colony, illuminating how new technologies of warfare shaped culture, politics, and society.
Gas masks --- Chemical warfare --- Civil defense --- World War, 1939-1945 --- History --- Safety measures. --- Social aspects --- History, Modern --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- Defensive (Military science) --- Public safety --- Air defenses, Civil --- Civilian defense --- Defense, Civil --- Emergency preparedness --- Protection of civilians --- Air warfare --- War --- CBR warfare --- Chemistry in warfare --- Breathing apparatus
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