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The railway carriages were unloaded one after another. After leaving their luggage the Jews had to pass individually in front of an ss doctor, who decided if they were fit enough for work. Those fit enough were taken off into small groups. The remainder were taken to the gas chambers, the men being separated from the women. In the undressing room the Jewish prisoners were told in their own language that they were going to be bathed and deloused, that they must leave their clothes neatly together and remember where they had put them so they would be able to find them quickly, after delousing. After undressing they went into the gas chambers, which were furnished with showers and water pipes and looked like a real bath house. Rudolf Hoss visited the Treblinka camp where the commandant used monoxide gas.
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EzraMany of the gas chambers used during the Holocaust were disguised to look like shower rooms, so that the victims did not panic- they were plain concrete chambers with benches built in along the walls, 'shower-heads' protruding at intervals in the ceiling, and drainage slats in the floors. The victims were often told that they were being taken for a shower-bath for de-lousing; in fact, the shower heads were really gas vents. They would be instructed to take all their clothes off and leave them on the benches- then the doors would be sealed, and the gas released.
they were not invented.
The gas chambers were developed, the first gassings were of the mentally ill, this was done in a shed by engine fumes, this method developed into gas vans.
Before the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau were designed they had used and adapted four others structure into gas chambers in order to best know what was needed.
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What was the thing that burned victims of gas chambers during the Holocaust called?
The corpses were burned in crematoria.
What did delouse mean during the holocaust?
It was the removal by various means of body lice
Why were kids sent into gas chambers during te holocaust?
everyone was sent. Children would have been sent if they were Jewish or if they were gypsies.
What did the Nazis use before gas chambers?
gas vans, they were the main gas extermination method until the spring of 1943, which was when the large gas chambers started ______ In the early stages of the Holocaust (1941-42) the Nazis relied mainly on mass open air shootings.
Would bombing the gas chambers at the extermination camps would have stopped or significantly hindered the Nazi slaughter of Jews?
It would have slowed down the Holocaust. The Nazis used gas chambers because they were efficient. However, precision bombing would not have possible.
