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В "Европе" Нормана Дэйвиса
текстбокс "Noyades" (p.706)
"In the spring of 1794, French Rerpublican officers in Mantes had so many rebels from the Vendee to kill that they didn't know how to do it. they had unleashed the 'infernal columns'; they had starved and massacred their captives; and they had been shooting batches of prisoners by the thousand. But it was not enough. They then hit on the idea of drowning. Nantes was an Atlantic slave port; and a fleet of large, shallow hulks was to hand. By sinking a loaded hulk in the river at night, and then refloating it, they devised an efficient and inconspicuous system of reusable death chambers. These were the terrible noyades. Necessity proved the mother of invention in the technology of death. (See J.Briooman, The Reign of Terror in France: Jean-Baptiste Carrier and the Drowning at Nantes (York, 1986).
A century and a half later, Nazi officers in occupied Poland faced a similar problem..." (дальше о газовых камерах нацистов)
In hoc signo vinces