2006-12-11 06:48:05 · 4 answers · asked by Jmeシ 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Chambers were constructed to look from the outside like mass shower buildings that could accommodate thousands of people. As the responder before me wrote, everyone stripped down and was forced in. Then the doors were locked, and the poison--Zyklon B, a form of hydrogen cyanide--was pumped in through the ventilation system. Within minutes, the massive amounts of poison had killed everyone inside.
The following blurb comes from the website listed below ( under "Know Your Source?"):
"The door would now be quickly screwed up and the gas discharged by the waiting disinfectors through vents in the ceilings of the gas chambers, down a shaft that led to the floor. This insured the rapid distribution of the gas. It could be observed through the peephole in the door that those who were standing nearest to the induction vents were killed at once. It can be said that about one-third died straightaway. The remainder staggered about and began to scream and struggle for air. The screaming, however, soon changed to the death rattle and in a few minutes all lay still...The door was opened half an hour after the induction of the gas, and the ventilation switched on...The special detachment now set about removing the gold teeth and cutting the hair from the women. After this, the bodies were taken up by elevator and laid in front of the ovens, which had meanwhile been stoked up. Depending on the size of the bodies, up to three corpses could be put into one oven at the same time. The time required for cremation...took twenty minutes."
2006-12-11 07:14:28 · answer #1 · answered by Stuck in the Middle Ages 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The gas chambers were designed to look like showers, the Jews were even handed bars of soap before they went in. They used large "ovens" to burn people alive, they experimented with wind tunnels, high and low altitude pressure chambers and freezing cold water to experiment hypothermia. Most deaths didnt really involve "machines" but the gas chambers or having the people dig mass graves and then shooting them. A high percentage of deaths also were due to malnutrition and dehydration.
2006-12-11 22:20:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shower rooms that were actually gas chambers. Everyone had to strip and get in the shower rooms. And the crematoria that ran 24/7.
Ugh. The Nazis and the people who sided with them were monsters.
2006-12-11 15:01:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-11 14:52:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋