[1] As the industrial revolution grew across all of Europe the desire for more powerful and effective weapons continued to grow.

Fiedler would continue to work and design several flamethrowers, and presented them to the German army in 1905.

About the same time another man named Bernhard Reddemann began his own development of the flamethrower.

At the outbreak of the Great War the German army started to look for towards the Flammenwerfer as a means to break the dead lock facing the western front.

During the battle of Verdun in 1916 where German pioneers and shock troopers used it to deadly effect.Citation needed They would be the front of the attack, clearing trenches and piercing soft points in enemy lines, allowing for more troops to enter.