How did the gas chambers work during the holocaust?

Answer 1

The Gas Chambers

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.

Answer 2

Many 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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

The best known uses of gas chambers during WWII was in the Nazi concentration camps in Germany, however they were also used during this time in the Independent State of Croatia. It is a little known fact that the first gas chamber was built in America, for the purpose of capital punishment.

Answer 5

People were put in chambers that had shower heads, people would think they were going to take a shower. But they were poisoned with insecticides and killed.

Answer 6

It is unknown the exact number of gas chambers. There were quite a few and most of the concentration camps had these chambers in them.

Answer 7

I'm pretty sure that it was about 40% of the people who died.