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Zyklon B

Zyklon B was a commercial pesticide used for mass murder in Nazi camps

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Did the Holocaust - defined as 6 million Jews killed in concentration camps in world war two mostly from gassing with cyanide - actually occur as stated

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...

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How did Zyklon B chemically kill people and what are its active components?

was a commercial pesticide whose lethal agent was (HCN); in pellet form it released HCN gas when exposed to air, killing by blocking cellular respiration at the mitochondrial level and rapidly deprivi...