“ We talked about the mask scandal. The word is excessive. But if there was a mask crisis there would be no point in concealing it. These few lines do not refer to the health crisis of the coronavirus but date from 1939. We are not talking about surgical masks or FFP2 but gas masks whose production the French State has not managed to organize on the national territory .
Protect yourself from air attacks
The case goes back a few years. With international tensions increasing in the 1930s, France acquired a passive defense system against air attacks, first by the law of April 8, 1935, which outlined its main lines, then by law of organization of the nation in time of war of July 11, 1938. Numerous decrees will follow, organizing the recruitment of passive defense personnel, the establishment of training for the populations or even the creation of anti-aircraft shelters. And the distribution of filter masks against the asphyxiating gases discovered during the First
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