• rand_alpha19@moist.catsweat.com
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    10 days ago

    They did it throughout the war and not merely at the start? So weird that there’s photographic and video evidence of people being gassed in buildings then.

    Edit - Here’s evidence that the Germans used chambers (often called “showers”) from 1941 onwards:

    https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-camps/types-of-camps/ https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gassing-operations

    While I’m sure vans were still used for their mobility/convenience and in cases where not many people were to be executed, Germany created extermination camps specifically to kill people (in more ways than just gassing) and those locations contained constructed buildings meant for execution with gas, not vans.

    Even a few concentration camps had their own gas chambers, which were not vans, that were used to execute people that could no longer do forced labour.

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      8 days ago

      Holy Shit Dude.

      When extermination methods were tested to relieve the Einsatzgruppen which had up to that point in the war been shooting people close up, by hand, gas vans were used. As tests. Until Zyklon B was introduced.

      I don’t know what you’re on, but it is a historic fact that before the gas chambers were used, gas vans were a method of murder.