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Keystone View Company's Commentary on Gas Attacks
This haunting photograph conveys the deadly means by which men methodically killed each other along the front during World War I. Despite the Hague Convention limitations on the use of poisonous gas in 1899 and 1907, both the Germans and the Allies used it. Looking back in 1923, the Keystone View Company comments on the back of this image, ". . . the Allies eventually excelled the Germans in the amounts and deadly quality of the gases used." Ultimately, the greatest number of soldiers who suffered from gas were Russians on the Eastern Front. |