Re: Blood and Iron
Karl Wagner is a disgruntled middle-aged instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. He finds himself concerned about the direction which the German nation is headed in—just as he is killed by a terrorist attack. Only to awaken and find himself reborn as an infant, Bruno von Zehntner, the youngest son of a noble family renowned for its part in the German war industry a few years after the founding of the German Empire. Bruno, as he is now known, desires to rewrite history and ensure the German Empire emerges victorious in the coming century. And in doing so, finds himself entrenched in a world filled with Blood and Iron!
Gaslighting is an Artform
Heinrich sneezed as he was in the middle of finishing up construction efforts on the fortifications established outside the now vacant city of Belgrade. He had a hard time with what had been done to the Serbian Capital, specifically all the residents inside of it who had passed away.
Under the orders of his commanding officer, roughly a hundred thousand innocent lives were terminated in the blink of an eye, and in the most horrific way imaginable. Mustard gas was particularly nasty. There were plenty of better ways to go that was for sure.
Other chemical weapons of the era would suffocate you to death, but Mustard Gas was a blister agent, causing intense burns to the inside and outside of one's body until they were no longer recognizable as human.
Purging the gas had which sank into the depths of the city had been a task of itself. Then came removing and disposing of a hundred thousand bodies. I mean how did one even go about that? Cremation was impossible.