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Gas chamber at Majdanek concentration camp

A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced. Poisonous agents used include hydrogen cyanide and carbon monoxide.

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Gas chamber

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A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing humans or other animals with gas, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is...

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Zyklon B

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factory by installing gas-tight doors, vents for the Zyklon B to be dropped into the chamber, and ventilation equipment to remove the gas afterwards. Crematorium...

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Gas van

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A gas van or gas wagon (Russian: душегубка, dushegubka, literally "soul killer"; German: Gaswagen) was a truck re-equipped as a mobile gas chamber. During...

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San Quentin Rehabilitation Center

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the largest in the United States, is located at the prison. It has a gas chamber, but since 1996, executions at the prison have been carried out by lethal...

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Auschwitz concentration camp

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Oświęcim freight station to the Auschwitz II gas chamber, then buried in a nearby meadow. The gas chamber was located in what prisoners called the "little...

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Sonderkommando photographs

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the black frame of the gas chamber's doorway or window. No. 282 shows a group of naked women just before they enter the gas chamber. No. 283 is an image...

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Leuchter report

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Leuchter claimed that his conclusions were based on his expert knowledge of gas chamber operation, his visual inspection of what remained of the structures at...

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Cloud chamber

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alcohol at the warm side of the chamber where the liquid evaporates, forming a vapor that cools as it falls through the gas and condenses on the cold bottom...

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List of botched executions

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hour. Allen Foster (1936) – Gas chamber. Foster was the first person to be executed inside of North Carolina's gas chamber. It took him 10 minutes to lose...

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Diving chamber

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high-pressure storage cylinders. This type of diving chamber can only be used underwater, as the internal gas pressure is directly proportional to the depth...

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Inert gas asphyxiation

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Inert gas asphyxiation is a form of asphyxiation which results from breathing a physiologically inert gas in the absence of oxygen, or a low amount of...

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Chamber

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conditions Execution chamber, where capital punishment is carried out Gas chamber, apparatus for killing humans or animals Chambar, or Chamber, a town in Pakistan...

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Topf and Sons

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not only made crematorium ovens, it also made ventilation systems for the gas chambers at Auschwitz II–Birkenau. Topf & Söhne's main competitor in making...

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Sobibor extermination camp

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exhaust manifold to pipes leading to the gas chamber. In mid-April 1942, the Nazis conducted experimental gassings in the nearly finished camp. Christian...

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Mustard gas

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blindness. Extreme ocular exposure to mustard gas vapors may result in corneal ulceration, anterior chamber scarring, and neovascularization. In these severe...

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Juanita Spinelli

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Spinelli was executed on November 21, 1941, at the age of 52, in the gas chamber at San Quentin. Her story was dramatized on TV in the Gang Busters episode...

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Cyanide poisoning

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cyanide or sodium cyanide with sulfuric acid (e.g., in a modern American gas chamber). Fumes arise during a building fire or any similar scenario involving...

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Mauthausen concentration camp

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the few camps in the West to use a gas chamber on a regular basis. In the beginning, an improvised mobile gas chamber – a van with the exhaust pipe connected...

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Execution chamber

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injection room and gas chamber were removed in 2019. Kansas, Nevada, and Wyoming are the only states to have an execution chamber, which is equipped to...

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Donald Harding

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January 1980. Harding was executed in 1992 by the state of Arizona by gas chamber for two murders he committed there. Harding became the first person to...

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Sirhan Sirhan

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murder, among other charges, and subsequently sentenced to death by gas chamber. In 1972, this was commuted to a life sentence in the aftermath of Furman...

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Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust

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seen no holes in the roof of the Birkenau gas chamber where the Zyklon was poured in. (In some of the gas chambers the Zyklon B was poured in through...

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Hanging

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a botched hanging in 1930 led the state of Arizona to switch to the gas chamber as its primary execution method, on the grounds that it was believed...

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Capital punishment in the United States

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Carolina (primary method) Gas chamber in California and Missouri In four states an alternate method (firing squad in Utah, gas chamber in Arizona, and electrocution...

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Zodiac Killer

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would not reveal his true identity as he was afraid of being sent to the gas chamber (then California's capital punishment method). Belli arranged a rendezvous...

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Erich Fuchs

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women were gassed in a gas chamber. The Jewesses had to undress in a clearing in the wood which had been roofed over, near the gas chamber. They were...

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