2007-05-05 09:41:09 · 5 answers · asked by jessie p 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I believe it was Xylon gas. It was adopted as a relatively inexpensive way of killing a lot of people at one time (yes, economics played a part--bullets were, after all, needed for the war effort), and also to replace the Einsatz Gruppen, a corps of individuals who would go to execution sites on motorcycles and dispatch the unfortunates in a hail of submachine gun fire.
Ironically, the Nazis noticed a high rate of burnout among these individuals, which was another reason for adopting the gas chambers.
2007-05-05 10:02:53 · answer #1 · answered by Chrispy 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The gas first used was carbon monoxide, generated by gasoline engines or released from carbon-monoxide cylinders. Experiments in the use of Zyklon B, a form of hydrogen cyanide or prussic acid, began in Auschwitz in September 1941. On Febuary 15, 1942 the first Jews to die from Zyclon B where killed. From July 1942 to August 1943, about 840,000 people died in gas chambers in another camp known as Treblinka.
2007-05-05 10:03:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Xyklon B - Cyanide
2007-05-05 17:53:38 · answer #3 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Zyclone B.
Cyanide.
2007-05-05 09:43:52 · answer #4 · answered by Liath 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Evil Meg is correct.
2007-05-05 10:11:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋