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The new product was also named Zyklon, but it became known as Zyklon B to distinguish it from the earlier version. Uses included delousing clothing and fumigating ships, warehouses, and trains. The Nazis started using Zyklon B in extermination camps in early 1942 to murder prisoners during the Holocaust.
Leuchter's opposition to the possibility of homicidal gassings at Auschwitz relies on residual cyanide remains found in the homicidal gas chambers and delousing chambers at Auschwitz. [ 4 ] : 167 While both facilities were exposed to the same substance ( Zyklon B ), many of the delousing chambers are stained with an iron-based compound known as ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 January 2025. American Holocaust denier Fred A. Leuchter Born Fred Arthur Leuchter Jr. (1943-02-07) February 7, 1943 (age 81) Malden, Massachusetts, U.S. Known for Manufacturer of execution equipment; author of Holocaust denial literature and speeches Fred Arthur Leuchter Jr. (born February 7, 1943 ...
He was certified and shown how to use Zyklon B for delousing. Bahr said he usually just used the gas for its original purpose, disinfection. However, on one occasion, he had been ordered to empty tins of Zyklon B into a sealed barracks filled with approximately 200 Soviet POWs.
A can of Zyklon B with adsorbent granules and original signed documents detailing ordering of Zyklon B as "materials for Jewish resettlement" (on display at Auschwitz concentration camp museum) Tesch & Stabenow was founded in 1924 in Hamburg. [2] In 1925, the firm became the only distributor of Zyklon on behalf of Degesch east of the Elbe.
Degesch held the patent on the infamous pesticide Zyklon, a variant of which was used to execute people in the gas chambers of German extermination camps during the Holocaust. Through the firms Tesch & Stabenow GmbH (Testa) and Heerdt-Linger (Heli), Degesch sold the poisonous gas Zyklon B to the German Army and the Schutzstaffel (SS).
One system of delousing using Zyklon B consisted of eight adjacent 10 cubic-meter gas chambers with gas-tight doors on each end. Infested clothes went in one end and fumigated clothes came out the clean end. A radiator heated the chamber, a fan inside circulated the gas. Fumigation took 60-90 minutes followed by ventilating the chamber.
He was present during selections where those incapable of working were sent to the gas chambers, and drew up a schedule as to who under him was to insert the Zyklon B. [10] On 20 April 1943 Klehr was awarded the War Merit Cross second class with swords. He was transferred to the Gleiwitz subcamp in 1944 where he was head of the prisoners ...