Today in 1915, 108 years ago: 240 km northeast of Warsaw (Poland), the German army attacks with chemical weapons the 70 Russian soldiers who were inside the Osovets fortress. When the 2000 Germans entered the fortress, believing that the Russians would be dead, they (their clothes bloodied by the effect of the poison) counteracted, panicking the Germans. The battle was known as “the attack of the dead men.” There was no clear winner between the two sides.​

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