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Yes the Germans had gas and they never used it. There are several theories about why he did not. One thought is because he was scared of it because of what he saw in WW1.
The main arguments against Germany using poison gas are:
a: the allies were far more capable of delivering gas attacks
Hop said:b: the German army was largely horse drawn, whereas the allies relied on motor transport. Poison gas has no effect on a truck, but will kill a horse as easily as a man (and it's much harder to effectively protect horses than men)
How were the allies far more capable of deploying it?
The German Army did use a vast amount of Horses but the fact that the majority of the Army was horse drawn is wrong and a myth.
Also, far more use was made of horses in the 1st World War, but that wasn't taken into consideration by either side
I would have thought that my quote would have explained why the Germans did not use gas in World War II. The German military saw no potential in the use of chemical warfare, it slowed the advance and the counter-measures available made it a pointless affair.
Air superiority. Artillery superiority. The German transport infrastructure was so degraded getting supplies to the front was difficult.
I don't doubt that Hitler would have used the bomb. You cannot compare it with gas on the battlefield. He repeatedly said he wanted London wiped off the face of the earth. No doubt he would have wanted a nuke. Biggest problem was that he was too dumb to understand the principle behind it and therefor lost interest in this superweapon. According to Speer.I am not sure Hilter would have used a nuke even if he had one. He was weird about what he considered the rules of war. Didn't the German's have Sarin gas by that point? I don't think they ever used it.
The first to use gas has the advantage of surprise. It takes weeks to get sufficient numbers of gas masks to the troops. Of course every country had them in reserve but would still have had to distribute them and produce more.