Talk:The Story of Group 935/@comment-1978336-20120626174754

Considering the terms of the Versailles treaty and the abysmal economic conditions following WWI, Germany would not be funding any research into the development of WMDs at that point in time. It wasn't until roughly 1930 that Germany started to seriously look into any sort of military ventures, and WMDs as we know them today were really first conceived during WWII. Prior to the 1940s, the closest thing to modern WMDs that anyone had thought of were Nikolai Tesla's various supposed "death machines" and to a lesser extent mustard gas and other early chemical weapons, and no one ever seriously considered building such things until the Wunderwaffen and the Manhattan Project were created. Nazi Germany never even succeeded in creating a nuclear weapon, though the Wunderwaffen succeeded in creating the Me-262 Schwalbe jet fighter, the Me-163 Komet rocket-propelled fighter, the Horten flying-wing stealth fighters and bombers, the V1 and V2 Flying Bombs, and might have created VTOL technologies such as "Die Glocke" ("The Bell").