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Empty Zyklon B canisters found by the Allies at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945. In early 1942, the Nazis began using Zyklon B as the preferred killing tool in extermination camps during the Holocaust. [22] They used it to murder roughly 1.1 million people in gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and elsewhere.
Guards from the so-called "Hygienic Institute" would then drop powerful Zyklon-B gas pellets into the sealed chambers, and wait for people to die. It took about 20 minutes.
During World War II Tesch & Stabenow sold massive quantities of Zyklon B to the SS. The gas was sent to Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Neuengamme, Gross-Rosen, Majdanek, and Ravensbrück concentration camps. In these camps, the SS used the Zyklon B they had purchased to murder approximately 1.1 million people. [1]
[125] [126] Located between Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II, arriving at this ramp meant a 2.5 km journey to Auschwitz II and the gas chambers. Most deportees were forced to walk, accompanied by SS men and a car with a Red Cross symbol that carried the Zyklon B, as well as an SS doctor in case officers were poisoned by mistake.
About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau will return to the site on Monday to remember the day it was finally liberated on 27 January 1945. ... But the ruins of two gas ...
In most other camps prisoners were selected for slave labor first; they were kept alive on starvation rations and made available to work as required. Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Jasenovac were retrofitted with Zyklon B gas chambers and crematoria buildings as the time went on, remaining operational until war's end in 1945. [48]
The new gas chambers were seldom used to their full capacity; 12,000–15,000 victims remained the daily average. [115] The killing process at Treblinka differed significantly from the method used at Auschwitz and Majdanek, where the poison gas Zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide) was used.
Karl Fritzsch (10 July 1903 – 2 May 1945) was a German SS official who served as deputy and acting commandant at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1940 to 1941. Fritzsch is best known as the official responsible for the death of priest Maximilian Kolbe and, according to Rudolf Höss, first suggesting using poisonous gas Zyklon B and experimenting with gas chambers for the purpose of mass ...