Holocaust
Zyklon B is an insecticide and it released HCN, Hydrocyanic acid - a gas. It usually comes in small pellets or disks and the HCN is what causes the death. Zyklon B is extremely poisonous to humans and it's used in the execution chambers in the US. There were two types of chambers in Auschwitz - those used for delousing and those for gassing and those for killing people on a massive scale. Hydrocyanic acid is a very weak acid and accordingly, it's salts dissolve in stronger acids. Even carbonic acid, which is formed as a reaction of carbon dioxide with water, will dissolve in Ferro-cyanide. At Auschwitz, there was fifteen huge furnaces, each could incinerate three bodies in a span of forty-five minutes. 720 bodies in a twelve hour day were buried. In a single year, Krema II could burn a quarter of a million bodies, some bodies were also burned in massive pits. The ashes of the bodies was scattered around the fields, buried o
In Wiener-Graben, prisoners were forced to climb the 186 steps of rock quarry, carrying twenty-five kilogram granite stones on their backs. Sometimes the blocks would fall, crushing and killing the people following. The guards invented games, betting on which prisoner would make it to the top first. With each successful journey, the weight was increased. If a prisoner fell, he would be beaten severely. Those surviving the ordeal were forced to jump the edge of the quarry to their deaths. In 1941, a large group of Jews were given "special treatment". They were made to slide down the loose stones of the stair case. The staircase became known as the "Stairs of Death" and the quarry "The Parachute Jump". SS Chief Heinrich Himmler, introduced the idea of Primitivbauweise, the idea of the prisoners using only primitive tools, and whenever possible, their bare hands. Mauthausen officials were charged with literally working prisoners
Some topics in this essay:
Krema II,
Jews Nazi,
HCN Hydrocyanic,
Heinrich Himmler,
Ferro-cyanide Auschwitz,
,
Stairs Death,
hydrocyanic acid,
killing people,
nazi propagandists,
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