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    GERMAN POISON CLOUD LEFT ITS MARK

    Jul 31, 2018 3 minutes

    THE NAZIS LEFT A TOXIC LEGACY in the trees of Arctic Norway.

    Desperate to conceal their massive battleship Tirpitz from unrelenting Allied search-and-destroy missions, the Germans moved the ship from fjord to fjord and sometimes shrouded it in a chemical fog.

    Researchers have found nearby trees badly damaged by the smoke screen of chlorosulfuric acid the ship produced. Claudia Hartl, a scientist from Germany’s Johannes Gutenberg University, made the discovery after examining trees at Kåfjord village

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