ZYKLON B AND THE CREMATORIUM

What is Gift Gas?
Zyklon B is a cyanide based pesticide that was invented in Germany in the 1920's. It is infamous for it's use in the Nazi concentration camps; mass murdered in gas chambers. The gas was dropped onto the Jews, and it released a toxin, killing them very quickly.

ZYKLON B

• Zyklon B, also known as gift gas, was originally used in World War 2 as disinfections and pest exterminations
• It was also used for that in Auschwitz until the summer of 1941, experimentally for the use of mass annihilation
• Co-inventor , Bruno Tesch, was executed in 1946 for knowingly selling the product for use on humans
• HCN is a chemical compound in the form of a poisonous, colorless liquid with the odor of bitter almonds.

Crematorium
The crematorium was directly attached to the gas chambers, so that once everyone had been killed, workers there would pick them up and throw them in the crematorium.

CREMATORIUM FACTS

• Crematorium I could kill 340 people every 24 hours
• Crematorium II could kill 1,440 people every 24 hours
• Crematorium III could kill 1,440 people every 24 hours
• Crematorium IV could kill 768 people every 24 hours
• Crematorium V could kill 768 people every 24 hours

ZYKLON B AND CREMATORIUM

• They were used in the Nazi concentration camps
• They ran through the years near end of the camps
• Used in many concentration camps

QUESTIONS

• What was Zyklon B first used for?
• What is the smell of HCN, a chemical found in Zyklon B?
• True or False? The crematorium is connected to the gas chambers

CITATIONS

• N.p, n.d. Web. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/augas.html
• N.p., n.d. Web. http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/orgs/american/skeptic-magazine/skeptic-12.html