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French writer Claude Ribbe claimed that 140 years before Hitler that Napoleon had set-up gas chambers to murder rebelling Haitian slaves by the tens of thousands. Are there any historians who back up this claim?

by /u/kingppoppie in /r/AskHistorians

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