40 GERMANY TRIUMPHANT 1939 –1941
Emergency measures
Fearing mass air attacks, including the use
of poison gas, once war had been declared,
governments took measures to ensure that
civil defense could be carried out in major
cities. Here fire-fighters in gas masks carry
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