Book contents
- The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
- Science in History
- The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Structures of Violence: Fritz Haber and the Institutionalization of Gas Warfare
- 2 The Man in the Rubber Mask: World War I and the Development of the Modern Gas Mask
- 3 The First “Chemical Subjects”: Soldier Encounters with the Gas Mask in World War I
- 4 The Limits of Sympathy: The Medical Treatment of Poison Gas during and after World War I
- 5 Atmos(fears): The Poison Gas Debates in the Weimar Republic
- 6 Technologies of Fate: Cultural and Intellectual Prophesies of the Future Gas War
- 7 Synthesizing the “Nazi Chemical Subject”: Gas Masks, Personal Armoring, and Vestiary Discipline in the Third Reich
- 8 Prophets of Poison: Industrialized Murder in the Gas Chambers of the Holocaust
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 May 2023
Book contents
- The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
- Science in History
- The Gas Mask in Interwar Germany
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Structures of Violence: Fritz Haber and the Institutionalization of Gas Warfare
- 2 The Man in the Rubber Mask: World War I and the Development of the Modern Gas Mask
- 3 The First “Chemical Subjects”: Soldier Encounters with the Gas Mask in World War I
- 4 The Limits of Sympathy: The Medical Treatment of Poison Gas during and after World War I
- 5 Atmos(fears): The Poison Gas Debates in the Weimar Republic
- 6 Technologies of Fate: Cultural and Intellectual Prophesies of the Future Gas War
- 7 Synthesizing the “Nazi Chemical Subject”: Gas Masks, Personal Armoring, and Vestiary Discipline in the Third Reich
- 8 Prophets of Poison: Industrialized Murder in the Gas Chambers of the Holocaust
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
On April 22, 1915, the German chemist Fritz Haber and a hand-selected group of technicians coordinated the first large-scale chlorine gas attack of World War I. In the days that followed this assault against Allied troops, the German state celebrated its supposedly successful use of poison gas and Haber was given a military rank with near total control of future chemical weapons development. Historically, Haber’s attack signified a massive escalation of chemical warfare, which had previously been either rudimentary or conceptual in nature.
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- The Gas Mask in Interwar GermanyVisions of Chemical Modernity, pp. 1 - 13Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023