German suffocating grenade from WW1

[sgdbdr]

Hi !

The picture below is extracted from a french book available on gallica " La Chimie meurtrière des allemands" (German deadly chemistry).
Has a pear shaped metallic enveloppe, a sling and contains bromine spread by black powder.

It's different from the carbonit grenade pictured on lex's website.

Did this grenade existed for real and does someone has pictures ?



Cheers,

S.

 

[Bellifortis]

I have never seen this item in any german publication.

 

[MINENAZ16]

Word "Boches" (for German) was not used in military official books.
Could be french propaganda for civilian to tell how German were cruel...
I have original french newspapers from 1914 to 1918 and sometimes they show diagrams of strange ordnance, never made by German, french inventions for propaganda.
I remember a diagram of shrapnel shell made to eject ball in the back of soldiers ; described as a cowardly shell that shoot in the back !

 

[MINENAZ16]

http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threa...shell-(French-propaganda)?p=313292#post313292