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Adolf Hitler wore his mustache in that fashion after shaving it to fit his gas mask in World War I

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Shaving really only became popular after World War I when troops returned home having been clean-shaven so that gas masks could securely fit on their face.

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Chemical warfare is no worse than conventional warfare. It is in no way worse to make a man's eyes water with gas than to fill his bodies with fragments of a bursting shell.