One of the more macabre collectible items from World War II is the infant gas mask. In 1939, the British government attempted to issue gas masks to every one of its 47 million citizens--including babies. The child would be encased within the mask and the parent would hold the tyke and operate a hand pump to pass air through the filter.
Fortunately, these items are almost always even now found in mint unused condition, as one of the few blessings of the conflict was that none of the nations involved deployed poison gas--except for, of course, the Nazis in their concentration camps.
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