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A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced. Poisonous agents used include hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide .
After the victims undressed, they were taken into the gas chamber, locked in, and killed with Zyklon B gas. After they were killed, Sonderkommando prisoners dragged the corpses out of the gas chambers.
Auschwitz I, Crematorium I and the first gas chamber. This object is preserved in its original state to a large degree. Crematorium I operated from August 1940 in a prewar army barracks storage building adapted for its new function.
Gas chamber, method of executing condemned prisoners by lethal gas. The gas chamber was first adopted in the U.S. state of Nevada in 1921 in an effort to provide a more humane form of capital punishment.
The first gas chamber at Auschwitz II was operational by March 1942. On or around 20 March, a transport of Polish Jews sent by the Gestapo from Silesia and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie was taken straight from the Oświęcim freight station to the Auschwitz II gas chamber, then buried in a nearby meadow. [ 47 ]
While the Operation Reinhard camps (Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor and Chelmno) used carbon monoxide as developed in the Euthanasia program. Auschwitz and Majdanek used Zyklon B, a commercially available pesticide, after experiments on Soviet POWs and Polish prisoners had proved its efficiency.
Gas chambers. After the successful test of using gas to kill prisoners in the basement of block 11, the first gas chamber was set up in Auschwitz I. It went into operation in the autumn of 1941 in a converted facility that had previously served as a morgue associated with the first camp crematorium.
