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Nazi concentration and extermination camp near Lublin in eastern Poland
Documentary, archival, survivor and museum records all agree: Nazi gas chambers were real and were used to murder large numbers of people during the Holocaust — historians estimate between roughly 2.3...
The claim that gas chambers were used to kill six million Jews during World War II is supported by extensive historical evidence: about six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, and homicidal g...
Nazi murderers used mainly two chemical approaches in gas killings: hydrogen cyanide delivered as Zyklon B pellets and carbon monoxide delivered either from cylinders or engine exhaust; Zyklon B (hydr...
The historical record—built from Nazi documents, camp infrastructure, survivor and perpetrator testimony, demographic research, wartime photographs and forensic studies—shows that and its collaborator...
Nazi gas chambers were part of a systematic program that evolved from early “euthanasia” experiments (1939–1941) into industrialized killing at extermination camps such as Auschwitz‑Birkenau, Treblink...
Historians distinguish a small number of purpose-built extermination camps where mass gassing was the central mechanism—Auschwitz‑Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibór, Belzec, Chełmno and Majdanek—and multipl...
The immediate Nazi reprisals after the May–June 1942 assassination of Reinhard Heydrich are widely reported as having been ordered at the highest levels of the Nazi regime—most sources say Adolf Hitle...
Both the Soviet Red Army and Western Allied forces (including U.S., British and other Allied troops) discovered and liberated Nazi concentration and extermination camps as they advanced across Europe ...
A broad, multidisciplinary body of evidence — physical remains at camps, Nazi documents, wartime intelligence and photographs, survivor and perpetrator testimony, postwar trials and archaeological wor...
Nazi gas chambers were used as a methodical tool of mass murder in the Holocaust: between 2.3 and 3 million Jews were killed with poisonous gas and Zyklon B alone was used to murder roughly 1.1 millio...
Archival records and postwar trial documents establish that Zyklon B was manufactured and marketed by firms connected to IG Farben—principally through the pesticide company Degesch, in which IG Farben...
The claim “800,000 thousand Jews killed in extermination camps” conflates magnitude and is inconsistent with mainstream estimates: historians and major institutions place Jewish deaths in the Holocaus...
Historians separate deaths in extermination (death) camps, concentration camps, and ghettos primarily by the camps’ stated and documented functions, physical infrastructure (e.g., gas chambers or lack...
The provided analyses identify as among the main Nazi camps during the Holocaust, and they emphasize the role of such as Westerbork and Drancy in deportations to extermination sites. The sources also ...
The most widely accepted scholarly and institutional estimate is that approximately six million Jewish men, women and children were murdered by Nazi Germany, its allies, and collaborators during the H...
Nazi camps used Zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide) widely as a purpose-adapted killing agent at Auschwitz and Majdanek, and smaller camps also had Zyklon B chambers . Available sources discuss other camps an...
Local collaborators played demonstrable, varied roles in mass shootings and deportations across occupied Eastern Europe: in Lithuania and Ukraine, police battalions, auxiliary units, nationalist milit...
Wooden doors appear in the documentary and physical record of Nazi camps because they were a practical, available, and—when correctly built—sufficiently gas‑tight solution for disinfection chambers an...
Multiple kinds of primary sources — Nazi administrative records and camp documentation, wartime and postwar interrogations and affidavits, transport and deportation lists, demographic and census data ...
Camp personnel obtained, stored and deployed homicidal gases using commercially produced cyanide-based pesticides (Zyklon B) and engine-exhaust or carbon-monoxide systems depending on the site; Zyklon...