Zyklon B
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Medical Doctors generally work closely together with Pharmacists. During the Holocaust this was not much different. Victor Capesius was born to a doctor of German descent in 1907, in a part of Romania which then belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He studied in Romania and Vienna where, in 1933, he completed his doctorate in pharmacy.
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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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