Gas Chambers
By Shay Evans
Overview
Gas Chambers weren't widely used until 1941 to be used to kill mentally ill people and Jews because they were seen as the most efficient way of "deposing" of these people.
These were also seen as better because they caused less mental anguish to the killers.
The main supporter of Gas Chamber implementation was Captain Christian Wirth, a veteran of the first Euthanasia program directed at killing off mentally and physically disabled people.
They Originally used carbon dioxide to gas those in the chambers but changed to Zyklon B tablets because they were a more efficient poison
The most notorious death camp was Auschwitz, over 1.6 million Jews were gassed there
almost 6 thousand daily when working at peak performance.
By the end of the war two thirds of the european Jewish population was killed mostly by gassing.
Images
Gas chamber in Auschwitz
The walls of a gas chamber in Auschwitz
Zyklon B Tablets
Multimedia
Clip from the boy in the striped pajamas
This portrays the gassing process very well
Works Cited
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005220
Image 1
http://www.paulspond.com/images/auschgas.jpg?lbisphpreq=1
Image 2
http://i.imgur.com/pIHpXwr.jpg
Image 3
http://i.ontheroad.to/9e/9e7e8626-e783-410f-aefc-cf2e90129575_800x600.jpg