Gas Chambers

• gas chambers is an apartus
• kills consisting of a sealed chambers into a poisonous or as phyxiant gas
• common used is hydrogen cyanide, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide
• method of execution for condemnbed prisoners
• carbon dioxide
• large-scale gas chambers designed for mass
• used by Nazi Germany as part of their genocide program

• a person is brought into a chamber then strapped to a Chair
• airtight chamber is sealed
• execution technician will pour a quantity of concentrated sufuric acid
• acid go's down a tube that leads to small holding tank directly below compartment containing cyanide pellots
• then a curtain is open to allow witnesses to observe chamber
• prison warden will ask condemned individual if he or she wishes to make a final statement
• executioner throw switch/leaver to cause cyanide pellets to drop into sulfric acid
• initiating chemical reaction generate hydrogen cyanide gas (HCN)
• it is advised to take several deep breaths to prevent unnecessary suffering
• most prisoners try to hold breath
• death from hydrogen cyanide is usually painful and unpleasant
• must be neatralized with anhydrous ammonia before it can be opened
• guards wear oxygen masks then removes body
• last,prison doctor examines the individual in order to declare the person is dead

Bunker 1 and Bunker 2 gas Chambers

• first chamber in Birkenu
• put into operation on March 20 1942
• known as Bunker one
• 1943 four homicidal gas chambers located in new crematoria buildings
• officially called Bunker two
• Bunker 2 was first for gassing Jews in 1943
• Gas chambers used Nazi Third Reich during 1930s and 1940s as part of so-called pubic euthanasia program
• aimed at eliminating physically and intellectually disabled people
• Bunker 1 marked for the purpose of gassing the jews when Adolf Dichmann first visited Auschwitzeiniaval
• most prisoners were tactood with their numbers
• they died from starvation, disease, rigours of hard labor, beatings, torture , summary execution-shooting, hanging or gassing

• disinfestational chambers are small, narrow, and low ceilings
• part of an elaborate play to make victoms believe they were going to take a bath after they deported their cloths
• person in charge of gassing where's a gas mask

• Eichmann passed on Heydrish's order to start " liquidating a quarter million Polish Jews
• Jews were being gassed at Lodz
• thousands of Jews were packed into busses with closed windows
• carbon monoxide from exhausts was piped back into the busses
• buses were driven into pits