Zyklon B
-
Time and time again, reports about the Holocaust were either ignored or not believed, even when the reports came from eyewitnesses like Kurt Gerstein. Gerstein was a German SS officer and head of technical disinfection services of the Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS (Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS). In this capacity, he would travel to Auschwitz,…
-
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…
-
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…
History of Sorts 
You must be logged in to post a comment.