Zyklon B

  • Zyklon B

    Zyklon B:hydrogen cyanide adsorbed on or released from a carrier in the form of small tablets, used as an insecticidal fumigant. (A fumigation team in New Orleans, 1939) Even in their preferred choice of mass killing the Nazis used a poison which was originally designed to kill insects and other pests, and that is the

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  • Not many people know that the poisonous gas Zyklon B was first used on Russian Prisoners of War, long before the Nazi’s had decided on the ‘final solution’ at the Wannsee conference. Today marks the 76th anniversary of the first mass killing by Zyklon B. SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Fritzsch (10 July 1903 – reported missing 2

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  • Today marks the 72nd anniversary of the executions of Bruno Tesch& Karl Weinbacher . I was able to find a few pictures of Bruno Tesch but none from Karl Weinbacher.   After the war, several employees of the companies that had supplied Zykon B to the SS in the concentration and extermination camps were brought

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