You can go to jail, just for researching this, eh. So it's been kind of rough to sit there watching this doc. But when it got into this part, you pay attention and don't feel like doing other things. You can actually watch it.
It's too long to upload a clip here. But I got the transcript. Used the closed captioning but that has time-stamps all over. I use chat gpt to remove it but later it realizes what's going on and says it can't continue. It's cause it's a conflict of interest, where the facts are going against "history". Then when you get it to analyze what's being said here, where, they go research stuff and things actually point towards the opposite. Then it shuts it down and doesn't like going there.
Looking at pictures of inside there, the chimneys, seems like a "renovation" where it's added later and wouldn't be rough like that, the way things are when they're built. Then, just this "gas".. nothing's air-tight. Seems like this stuff is flammable too and would explode, but supposedly they got this incinerator right by there. On and on.
How much characters is this transcript.. 12k.. should fit in here.
Part 21 Adolf Hitler - The Greatest Story NEVER Told!
In 1992, a brilliant young Jewish revisionist named David Cole made a groundbreaking documentary about the Holocaust.
This is an edited version of his work.
The complete documentary "Cole in Auschwitz" can be viewed on the internet.
I know from years of my own research and the research of others that proofs of the Holocaust are few.
Literally, all there is are the "eyewitness" testimonies and postwar confessions.
There's no picture, plan, or wartime document dealing with homicidal gas chambers or a plan to exterminate the Jews.
And we can't use the excuse that the Nazis destroyed all the evidence because after we had broken the German code, we were able to intercept their secret transmissions, including those that came from Auschwitz.
The key to understanding the Holocaust story is understanding the true nature of the things passed off as "proofs."
Everything that is used as evidence of the Holocaust also can be said to have a perfectly normal explanation.
For example, these exhibits are said to be the material "proofs" of exterminations.
There's the piles of human hair. But what does that prove?
It's acknowledged that each inmate had his or her head shaved because of the lice problem.
That's not denied, so why wouldn't there be piles of human hair?
What about the piles of shoes and clothing; is that a proof?
It's a fact that the prisoners were issued a uniform upon arrival, including shoes.
So why wouldn't there be piles of inmates' shoes and clothing?
It doesn't prove anybody was killed.
What about the canisters of gas?
No one denies that Zyklon B was used to disinfect clothes and also buildings.
Zyklon B was one of the premier pest control agents in Europe at that time.
It was present in most of the concentration camps, including those that are not said to have had homicidal gas chambers in them.
The typhus epidemic that spread throughout Europe during the war and also spread through the camps called for stringent lice control procedures.
So what other proofs are offered?
Well, there's the usual pictures of sick inmates, which proves the ground-breaking thesis that people got sick in the camp.
Once again, I'll add that nobody denies the typhus epidemic, which resulted in many deaths.
Then there's the artwork and the pictures of children.
But at this point, it's looking pretty bad for somebody looking for objective proofs of the gas chamber.
And some of the proofs they present actually work against the concept.
For example, they have one of several aerial photographs taken at Auschwitz by the Allies during the war.
They don't mention, however, that when blown up, these photos don't show people being gassed or bodies being burned, even though they were taken during the time killings were said to be going on almost non-stop.
Once inside, we can see why revisionists have had such a field day with this building:
Obvious marks on the walls and floors, where apparently walls had been knocked down.
Equally obvious holes in the floor where bathroom facilities had been.
We maintain that, unlike the large hollow chamber we now see, this room had once been five rooms, including a bathroom.
Yet the building does have what appears to be evidence of criminal usage:
Four holes in the ceiling, which lead to the roof where four little chimneys stand.
It is said that through these four holes, Zyklon B crystals were dropped.
And indeed, there seems to be no other explanation for them.
Do these holes prove homicidal gassings?
Revisionists have claimed in the past that these holes were added after the camp's liberation and that the inside walls were knocked down and the bathroom facilities removed to make the room look like a big gas chamber.
Let's start again talking about this building here.
This is a crematorium/gas chamber.
But this is a reconstruction?
It is in original state.
Original? Original state. It is an original part. Original.
Oh, it is original?
Original, in through this chimney was thrown Zyklon B.
Later, a senior official would confirm that the holes in the roof had been built after the war.
Are those the original holes in the ceiling?
No. They've been rebuilt? Yes. After the war?
After the war, yes. Dr. Franciszek Piper, the senior curator and director of archives at the Auschwitz State Museum, admitted on camera to David Cole that "Krema 1," the alleged "homicidal gas chamber" at the Auschwitz main camp, was in fact fabricated after the war by the Soviet Union under direct orders of Stalin.
This includes the fake chimney, that is not even connected with the crematorium.
This is Auschwitz-Birkenau in an Allied aerial photo from September 1944.
The train that would come up, carrying the doomed inmates, you would have thousands of inmates being marched off the trains into one of these two gas chambers in full view of the entire camp.
This was a spectacle that nobody in the camp could miss; they would see thousands of people marching into those buildings and nobody coming out.
These were "gas chambers" that were not isolated from anyone, and indeed, when these aerial photographs were released in the late 70s, they contradicted many supposed eyewitness claims about how the Nazis had tried to camouflage the gas chambers at Birkenau.
Another question that should be asked:
Is there any Zyklon B residue in the gas chamber, knowing that cyanide gas would, in fact, leave a residue?
Conducted forensic examinations on the gas chambers at Auschwitz to answer that question.
He took samples from the four gas chambers at Birkenau, the one at the main camp, and the control sample from one of the disinfestation chambers that we know did use Zyklon B.
Now, the gas chamber samples showed almost no appreciable traces, whereas the disinfestation sample literally went right off the scale.
In 1990, the Institute of Forensic Research in Krakow decided to conduct their own forensic tests to see if they could refute Fred Leuchter's findings, and their own tests got back the same results.
In Canada in 1988, Ernst Zündel faced charges for Holocaust denial in a second trial.
He hired American Frederick A. Leuchter, a court-certified expert in gas execution technology.
After secretly conducting scientific experiments in camps such as Auschwitz in Poland, on his return he published his findings in the "Leuchter Report."
[after this chatgpt stopped transcribing the closed captioned text, removing time-stamps and I had to remove them manually]
I told Mr. Zundel and his defense team prior to my going, that if I did in fact find facilities that could have supported executions, not only whether they did, did support the executions, but only whether or not they could have sustained gas executions. I would make that very clear in my report. And that is what I would testify to, when I testified in court.
What aside from the samples convinced you that these facilities could not have been used then or now as execution facilities?
You must have gasketed doors, no windows. Means of getting the gas in, means of getting the gas out. If those persons operating the facilities didn't gas themselves to death at the same time that the executies died, they certainly would have been blown to bits, when the gas exploded from a switch, the heat of a light bulb, or the gas approaching and getting in to the crematory furnace.
We're talking about brick and mortar buildings, without heat, with non explosion proof lighting, without gasketed doors. In some cases without doors at all.
And with crematories that opened very close or adjacent to the facility. I mean it's just ludicrous to consider that these facilities could have been used as gas chambers.
There's no such a thing as an "eye witness". I have never seen a report that was written, by anyone, who had a valid description of what could of happened at a gassing.
So, the long and the short of it is, there are no eye witnesses, because there were no gassings.
I think it's necessary to put this matter in its proper historical perspective.
You see, we live in a time now when the old Soviet Union has fallen apart and it's now okay for both liberals and conservatives, as well as everybody else, to speak ill of the departed communist state.
But it was not always that way. During World War 2, the Soviets were more than just a military ally; their anti-Nazi propaganda was readily accepted by the other Allies because it served all of their purposes. The point is, that, as the victors, the Soviets got to commit their propaganda to the history books as fact.
With the 20-20 hindsight we now have, the knowledge of Stalin's despotism, and the KGB's history of misinformation and deception, as well as the other camps in Poland; Majdanek. Belzec, Chelmno, Treblinka and Sobibor, we've had to rely on the Soviets for most of our information.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE AUSCHWITZ DEATH TOLL
In Krakov, the trial of the principal culprits for the Auschwitz concentration camp came to an end before a Polish court. 1945- 300.000 dead.
Altogether nearly 300.000 people from the most different nations died in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
FOUR MILLION PEOPLE SUFERED AND DIED HERE AT THE HANDS OF THE NAZI MURDERERS BETWEEN THE YEARS 1940 AND 1945
1948- 4 Million
1989- 1.5 Million
ABOUT ONE AND A HALF MILLION MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, MAINLY JEWS FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF EUROPE.
AUSCHWITZ - BIRKENAU 1940-1945
Deaths at Auschwitz drop by a huge 2.5 million, but still the total 6.000.000 deaths remains the same.
THE MEDIA HISTORY OF THE "SIX MILLION" 1915- 2013
... Six million Jews... Six Million Souls... 6.000,000 ... the 6.000.000 Jews... ... 6.000.000 IN... SIX MILLION JEWS ... "the European holocaust." ... A depressing picture of 6.000.000...
[those were newspaper clippings from years before the war, where they were using that number!]
PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT 2013
CNN - 2013
I believe in the inarguable fact, that 6 million Jews were killed in the war by Adolf Hitler Nazis. I'm merely asking you, as a President of Iran, and as a scholar, do you believe 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, or do you think that is not true?
In a 2005 speech, Iran's former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, caused an international uproar by describing the Holocaust as a fabricated legend promoted to protect Israel.
David Cole disappires after his 1994 appearance on the Phil Donahue show after receiving several death threats from Jewish extremists.
He recently emerged from hiding in 2013.
In Canada in 1988, Ernst Zündel was convicted and sentenced to a nine-month jail term after the court dismissed Leucher's testimony.
Later, Ernst Zündel will spent 2 years in solitary confinement in a Canadian jail before being deported to Germany to stand trial.
Fred Leuchter asked for a joint scientific investigation into the Holocust. It never happened. Insteed he was targeted by Jewish extremists and his career ruined.
Since its publication the Leuchter Report has earned legendary status in the world of Hoocaust Revisionism.
Denying the Holocaust is a criminal offence and carries a custodial sentence in several European counries.
The Holocaust is the ONLY event in history to be enforced by law.
Notable Political Prisoners:
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Jürgen Graf, Swiss Court 15 months imprisonment
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Gerhard Förster, Swiss Court 12 months imprisonment
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Gaston-Armand Amaudruz, Swiss Court 1 year imprisonment.
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David Irving, Austrian court. 1 year imprisonment.
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Germar Rudolf, German court. 21/2 years imprisonment.
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Ernst Zündel, German court. 5 years imprisonment.
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Wolfgang Fröhlich, Austrian court. 6 years imprisonment.
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Sylvia Stolz, German court. 3 1/2 years imprisonment.
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Horst Mahler, German court. 5 years imprisonment.
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Dirk Zimmerman, German court. 9 months imprisonment.
But I don't think 6 million Jews were gassed. Now be... be careful, I beg of you. This is against the law in Germany. If there was a German, or somebody with the German state, you could have me thrown in prison, before I leave Germany. I hope that's not your intention.
- Bishop Richard Williamson, German court, 12,000 fine
To be continued
Might still have text room here.. Then I'm looking up that documentary "Cole in Auschwitz" David Cole, they use in here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cole_(journalist)
I'm there.. this guy sounds like he's Jewish.. yet he's researching this.. over there. Yeah.. so he's actually a Jew but he's looking into this stuff. Which, you'd think.. you'd go to prison for doing that, right. So this is a good one.
Then what's the deal with his name. "David Christopher Cole, also known as David Stein (born c. 1968), is an American film director. In the 1990s, he gained publicity as a Holocaust denier.[2] Much of the controversy Cole attracted resulted from the fact that he is Jewish. After changing his name to David Stein following death threats, "
"Life until 1998 Cole was raised in West Los Angeles as a secular Jew. "
So this guy's a Jew here. I haven't watch this yet.. it's an hour long. Where he's researching this and they used some of the footage in that 6hr doc. Plus it's on youtube.
David Cole In Auschwitz 1992 Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO659PP_unQ
Then you get the first comment.. "The truth doesn't need laws to protect it. In 18 countries you can go to jail for 5 years for even asking questions."
It's like WTF.. you can't even research or you go to jail, right.
But it kind of makes sense how the Russians would do that. They were trying to invade Russia. So they had a beef with these guys. But why would Germany have these super strict laws, if it's bogus.
In the post, it said: THE MEDIA HISTORY OF THE "SIX MILLION" 1915- 2013
... Six million Jews... Six Million Souls... 6.000,000 ... the 6.000.000 Jews... ... 6.000.000 IN... SIX MILLION JEWS ... "the European holocaust." ... A depressing picture of 6.000.000...
[those were newspaper clippings from years before the war, where they were using that number!]
The closed captioning didn't say what newspaper and years those quotes were from. Manually transcribing it. The war started in 1939.. so WTF.
1915, The Sun, New York... "Newspaper clipping context: "Since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, the Jewish people have had no darker page in their history than that which the Russian government is writing to-day. Six million Jews, one-half of the jewish people throughout the world, are being persecuted, hounded, humiliated, tortured, starved."
1918, The New York Times.. "Six Million Souls will need help to resume normal life when war is ended"
1919, The New York Times. "Mass Meeting hears that 127,000 Jews have been killed and 6,000,000 are in peril."
1920, The Constitution, Atlanta. "of the starvation and suf... the 6,000,000 Jews who... ern Europe and Palestine.. the persecution they... not only in the last... but for almost a century"
1920, The New York Times. "Begs America save 6,000,000 in Russia. Massacre threatens all Jews as Soviet power wanes, declares Kreinin, coming here for aid."
1931, The Gazette, Montreal. "Six million jews face starvation".
1936, The New York Times. "The petition, in expressing the opinion of enlightened Christian leadership in the United States, favoring a larger Jewish immigration into Palestine, stressed the intolerable sufferings of the millions of Jews in "the European holocaust."
1938, The New York Times. "A depressing picture of 6,000,000 Jews in central Europe deprived of protection or economic opportunities, slowly dying of starvation, all hope gone, was presented to the teachers by Jacob Tarshis, known to his radio audience as The Lamp-"
Maxed out the text room.. it doesn't say how much you have left it just stops when it's maxed out.
But yeah.. seems like a lot of these dead piles of bodies, could be from this "typhus epidemic". Like what even is that.
This is like the other day, was watching the Nosferatu (2024) movie.. where it's back in the old days when they had that black plague. Wasn't that lice and rats.. and this shit would get all over, back in those days.
Looking into what this typhus was.. "Epidemic typhus, also called louse-borne typhus, is an uncommon disease caused by a bacteria called Rickettsia prowazekii. Epidemic typhus is spread to people through contact with infected body lice". Yeah that's like this black plague, eh.
Earlier too in this 6hr doc, they're talking about the actual conditions of these German concentration camps.. let me get transcript of that section.
Check out this later part first..
Apart from ameniutes we know of that included... An orchesra, movies, camp money, canteen, postcards, letters, theater, musical plays and a football team...
Facilities at the Auschwitz "death camp" also featured... A hospial, a library and an Olympic size swimming pool complete with several diving boards.
ok here's the transcript of that section before this one where they investigate the gas facilities. This starts at 4hrs 49min of that 6hr 30min doc.
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04:49:31,605 --> 04:49:32,875
Despite the seizure by the Allies of millions of documents at the end of the war not one single document showing Adolf Hitler ordered systematic exterminations of the Jews has ever been found.
With no photographs, video footage or even a single report of a gassed victim, we have had to trust the Soviets at testimonies of former inmates, none of whom were cross-examinated at Nuremberg.
However, some inmates tell a conflicting story of their treatment in the Eastern concentration camps.
We also had an orchestra where some of the musicians stands us together and one musician was so good that he had the instruments playing and he wrote the notes, and later on we had a band show who played over the weekend. And that was of course helping us, you know we also did plays and stuff.
Were there any cultural activities happening in Auschwitz?
Yes. I told you we had a piano, put into, not just a piano, a grand piano, was brought into block one. Once that was built, that new block, the downstairs room was assigned for theater.
They said they're going to build a movie in the camp. The prisoners sat down and, "you must be crazy, you cannot make a movie (theater) for us in the camp?"
But really it happened. They made a movie (theater) in the camp. Yeah, and we... we went in barracks after work we... we could go to see a movie sometimes, they brought movies in see. ...in the evenings, and...
What kind of movies would they show?
German movies.
Once I came to the main camp, we were allowed twice a month to write home. Once a postcard and once a letter.
They gave you the materials?
Yeah, they gave us the letter and the materials... the cost.
You had money?
Yeah, we got my ways??...still got my w??...money we got through the Jewish community from they know who send us... everybody some money.
And in the camp you could have currency?
Yeah, we could have money, because there was in camp loads of what they called a "Cantina", and not many times, but once in a while they sold a few cigarettes, or they sold something... whatever they had.
So if you had money you could buy, at the Cantina there.
Redeemable in... in that Cantina if they had something.
[was like these "vouchers"]
So, that was their... their way of distributing money.
To everybody, everyone got this money.
Soccer teams... were organized very well. the event is held in the former barrack's courtyard And one of these uh enlisted, top enlisted SS men, decided he wants to play for the Polish team.
So... we say okay, you can play. And then the Commandant... Commandant... SS Commandant, he was uh like... like a Captain, he decided he wanted to play for the German team.
So he went in the field. But that's happened, so... but it was 1944, see? Is what you're saying then that um... the closer the end of the war came, uh... pressure was let up rather than ah... Definitely.
becoming more cruel or...?
Freddie Hirsch called me... to the children's barracks, he was heading then, and uh... he asked me if I could paint something on the wall for the children?
And I said, "well, if you can get the materials?"
He said, "I'll get the materials." And I said, "Okay".
And then a very handsome young blonde man from the man's camp came over one day, and Freddie Hirsch called me to come and meet him. And he asked me what I need? So, I said, "well, if I can get any wall paints, so I mean tempera paints, I would like those,
if you get me some?" And he said, "Yes, anything you want." So I made a painting of Dopey standing on another dwarfs head, with a cloak around him so he looked like a tall guy. So he would be as tall as Snow White.
Theresienstadt Concentration Camp
I now understand that there was another painter, who continued something painting on the walls after I'd left. What did it do, not only for... for you, but for the... for the children?
On, on an emotional level? Well it did several things, not just emotional, but the children then wrote a play, which was a satire of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The play was very successful. Because the little girl, who was playing Snow White, had an incredible voice. A gorgeous soprano, just like the one that you hear in the movie.
Apart from ameniutes we know of that included... An orchesra, movies, camp money, canteen, postcards, letters, theater, musical plays and a football team...
Facilities at the Auschwitz "death camp" also featured... A hospial, a library and an Olympic size swimming pool complete with several diving boards.
... AND COMPARED TO STALIN'S GULAGS?
STALIN'S GULAGS
Look down, look down, you'll always be a slave Look down, look down, You're standing in your grave Look down, look down, you'll always be a slave Look down, look down, You're standing in your grave
To be continued
Later I'm going to watch that 1hr doc.. but checking comments somebody's saying, "This isn't even the full version of this I clearly recall David Cole walking through so-called homicidal showers where he deliberately shows us large plate glass windows looking onto a Courtyard."
So I look around.. see this archive.org version..
https://archive.org/details/david-cole-the-truth-behind-the-gates-of-auschwitz-holocaustianity
But that one's 53min 13sec, meanwhile that youtube one was 50min 45sec, so what 3min got cut there.
Let's look into this.. the guy talking about how the normal lighting wiring setup, would ignite the gas.
is Zyklon B highly flammable?
ChatGPT said:
Zyklon B itself was not highly flammable, but its active ingredient, hydrogen cyanide (HCN), is highly flammable and volatile. Hydrogen cyanide has a low flashpoint of -17.8°C (0°F) and can form explosive mixtures with air.
Zyklon B was designed as a solid substrate (such as diatomaceous earth or gypsum) soaked with liquid hydrogen cyanide. This formulation made it easier to handle, but once exposed to air, the hydrogen cyanide would evaporate and become a highly flammable gas.
So, while the carrier material was not flammable, the gas released from Zyklon B was extremely flammable and hazardous.
You said:
These gas chambers during the war, where they used Zyklon B, if there was any spark, the whole place would blow up, right?
ChatGPT said:
Not necessarily. While hydrogen cyanide (HCN), the active ingredient in Zyklon B, is highly flammable, the conditions in the gas chambers were not ideal for an explosion. Here’s why:
Concentration Matters – For hydrogen cyanide to explode, it needs to be within a specific range of concentration in the air (5.6% to 40% by volume). In the gas chambers, the concentration was high enough to be lethal but likely not within this explosive range.
Ventilation & Dissipation – The gas was introduced in a controlled manner, allowing it to spread rather than accumulate in explosive pockets.
Ignition Source – While HCN is flammable, an actual explosion requires a strong ignition source (like an open flame or a high-energy spark). The chambers were designed for mass killing, not industrial-scale combustion, so sparks or flames were unlikely.
In theory, if the right concentration was reached and there was an ignition source, an explosion could occur—but in practice, the conditions inside the gas chambers likely didn’t meet all the necessary factors for this to happen.
You said:
how about something like a light that was just normal.. would that spark fire it up?
ChatGPT said:
A normal electric light would not be likely to ignite hydrogen cyanide (HCN) gas under typical conditions. Here’s why:
Energy Required for Ignition – HCN has an autoignition temperature of 538°C (1000°F), meaning it needs a very hot source to catch fire. A regular lightbulb, even an incandescent one, wouldn’t get nearly hot enough to ignite it.
Sparks from Electrical Fixtures – Standard enclosed light fixtures don’t normally produce sparks. If there were a faulty connection or a short circuit, it could produce a spark, but only if the gas concentration was within the explosive range (5.6%–40% by volume in air).
Gas Concentration – In the gas chambers, the concentration of HCN was lethal but likely not within the ideal range for combustion. The gas would disperse rather than accumulate in dense pockets.
Could a Spark Ignite Zyklon B Gas? A small electrical spark alone? Unlikely. An open flame or very high-energy spark? Possible, under the right conditions. A malfunctioning, sparking electrical system in a confined space? Could be a risk, but still depends on gas concentration. In real-world use, explosions didn’t occur in the gas chambers, which suggests the conditions weren’t right for ignition.
You said:
yeah the wiring, not the bulb because that's enclosed
ChatGPT said:
Ah, I see what you're getting at now—whether faulty wiring or a spark from electrical components could ignite the hydrogen cyanide gas.
In theory, a spark from faulty wiring could pose a risk, but there are a few things that would need to line up for an ignition to happen:
Sufficient Spark Energy – A spark from wiring would need to be powerful enough to reach the ignition energy of hydrogen cyanide (which is around 538°C). Small electrical sparks, like those from minor short circuits, are usually not hot enough to ignite the gas. However, a larger electrical malfunction—such as a spark generated by a short circuit or a malfunctioning device—could potentially cause ignition if the gas concentration was within the flammable range.
Gas Concentration – As I mentioned, hydrogen cyanide needs to be at a specific concentration to ignite (between 5.6% and 40% in air). In a gas chamber, the gas would typically disperse and wouldn't accumulate to such dangerous levels unless there was a substantial amount of Zyklon B released in a confined space.
Ventilation – The chambers had ventilation, which helped dissipate the gas. This means that while it would have been lethal at the correct concentration, the gas likely wouldn’t build up to the level needed for an explosion under normal operation.
So, if there were a serious electrical malfunction, like faulty wiring sparking in a confined space with poor ventilation, it could have posed a risk of igniting the gas. However, this scenario would still require a very specific set of conditions—sparks, high enough concentrations of hydrogen cyanide, and poor ventilation—for it to be truly dangerous. Fortunately, this wasn't a common issue in these gas chambers.
You said:
it would have to be faulty wiring
ChatGPT said:
Yes, exactly—it would have to be faulty wiring or some other malfunction that generated a significant spark or electrical fault. Regular, well-maintained electrical systems aren't likely to produce the kind of spark necessary to ignite the hydrogen cyanide gas.
A small spark from a normal lightbulb fixture or standard wiring wouldn't generate enough heat to reach the ignition temperature of hydrogen cyanide. But if there was a serious electrical fault—like a short circuit, exposed wires, or a malfunctioning piece of equipment—it could produce a spark large enough to potentially ignite the gas, but only if the gas concentration were at the dangerous level.
So, faulty wiring or other electrical issues could, under the right (or wrong) circumstances, create a real risk in such a setting, but this wasn’t something that typically happened in the gas chambers.
So what is this stuff, here.
Zyklon B (German: [tsyˈkloːn ˈbeː] ⓘ; translated Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s. It consists of hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), as well as a cautionary eye irritant and one of several adsorbents such as diatomaceous earth. The product is notorious for its use by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust to murder approximately 1.1 million people in gas chambers installed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and other extermination camps.[a]
Hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas that interferes with cellular respiration, was first used as a pesticide in California in the 1880s. Research at Degesch of Germany led to the development of Zyklon (later known as Zyklon A), a pesticide that released hydrogen cyanide upon exposure to water and heat. It was banned after World War I, when Germany used a similar product as a chemical weapon. Degussa purchased Degesch in 1922. Their team of chemists, which included Walter Heerdt [de] and Bruno Tesch, devised a method of packaging hydrogen cyanide in sealed canisters along with a cautionary eye irritant and one of several adsorbents such as diatomaceous earth. 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. Tesch and his deputy executive, Karl Weinbacher, were executed in 1946 for knowingly selling the product to the SS for use on humans. Hydrogen cyanide is now rarely used as a pesticide but still has industrial applications. Firms in several countries continue to produce Zyklon B under alternative brand names, including Detia-Degesch, the successor to Degesch, who renamed the product Cyanosil in 1974.
lol.. so they renamed it.. I guess it had a "bad reputation" for that name brand.
Wait.. what was this.. "Hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas that interferes with cellular respiration, was first used as a pesticide in California in the 1880s. " Oh.. and you think you got a hard time these days with the BPA in your plastic bags.
Later I wonder.. so this shit wasn't a "gas".. was it. I look up what this shit looks like.. it's like small rocks, eh, or "pebbles". then I wonder, how would the "worker" deal with handling that. And these "fumes" to make sure they don't croak. Do you picture any of this going on in this scenario. How would they vent out the gas. I guess they'd wear gas masks, eh. What if you get that on your outfit. Maybe get hosed off.
Seems like a hassle and wouldn't it be much easier to just hang them like they were doing them after the war. The bullets.. that'd cost a lot, I guess. It's like in China where the family gets charged the price of the bullet. hmm.
Zyklon B they use in gas chambers.. it's actually not a gas, but like rocks they'd shovel down from little chimneys on the roof? Then what.. the "vapours" would spread around in the room?
ChatGPT said:
Yeah, Zyklon B wasn't a gas in its stored form—it was a pesticide originally used for fumigation. It came as small pellets or granules soaked with hydrogen cyanide (HCN), which would release toxic fumes when exposed to air.
In the gas chambers, the SS would drop the pellets through vents or small chimneys in the ceiling or walls. The heat and humidity inside would cause the hydrogen cyanide to evaporate, turning into a lethal gas that spread rapidly. Victims would inhale it, and it would interfere with their body's ability to use oxygen, leading to suffocation at the cellular level.
It was a horrific and methodically engineered process, designed for mass murder in Auschwitz and other camps.
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So these guys shovelling it down, would wear gas masks? How about later.. when they go to haul out bodies.. I guess they'd wear gas masks and outfits too.. or would they wait till it vents out or something. I guess you'd have to watch out when they'd vent it. Doesn't seem like those rooms had vents, other than to open windows or doors?
ChatGPT said:
Yeah, the SS personnel dropping the Zyklon B would wear gas masks for protection. The gas chambers were sealed to prevent the poison from leaking out too soon, but after the victims were killed, the rooms had to be ventilated before anyone could safely enter.
The Sonderkommando—prisoners forced to dispose of the bodies—also had to deal with the gas. They would usually wait for the fumes to dissipate, and sometimes ventilation fans were used to speed up the process. In some cases, doors and vents were simply opened to let the gas clear out. Even then, traces of hydrogen cyanide could linger, so there are reports of Sonderkommando prisoners being given gas masks while they worked, though they weren’t always available.
It was an incredibly dangerous and horrific job, and the SS kept the Sonderkommando isolated to prevent word from getting out about what was happening. They were regularly executed and replaced to keep the operation secret.