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Camps such as Lannach with their relatively "easy" prison regime are at one extreme of this system in the Donau- and Alpengaue, Mauthausen concentration camp and Gusen concentration camp, which practiced extermination through work, marked the other end of the scale. Of the 300,000 prisoners of war on Austrian soil, roughly 260,000 were utilized ...
Starting in 1941, gas chambers were used at extermination camps in Poland for the mass-murder of Jews, Roma, and other victims of the Holocaust. Gas vans were used at the Chełmno extermination camp. The Operation Reinhard extermination camps at Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka used exhaust fumes from stationary diesel engines. [15]
The gas chambers worked to their fullest capacity from May to July 1944, during the Holocaust in Hungary. [205] A rail spur leading to crematoria II and III in Auschwitz II was completed that May, and a new ramp was built between sectors BI and BII to deliver the victims closer to the gas chambers (images top right).
Zyklon B gas chambers Treblinka: 800,000 [66] 23 July 1942 – 19 October 1943 General Government district Treblinka: Carbon monoxide gas chambers Bełżec: 600,000 [67] 17 March 1942 – end of June 1943 General Government district: Bełżec: Carbon monoxide gas chambers Chełmno: 320,000 [68] 8 December 1941 – March 1943, June 1944 – 18 ...
Some 56 tonnes of the 729 tonnes sold in Germany in 1942–44 were sold to concentration camps, amounting to about 8 percent of domestic sales. [30] Auschwitz received 23.8 tonnes, of which 6 tonnes were used for fumigation. The remainder was used in the gas chambers or lost to spoilage (the product had a stated shelf life of only three months ...
U.S. Army soldiers make the citizens of Weimar view Buchenwald concentration camp. Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps were liberated by the Red Army on the 26 and 27 January 1945. [17] To try to conceal what had been going on, the SS blew up the crematoria and gas chambers before the Soviet troops arrived.
The crematoria contained the Entkleidungskammer (undressing rooms), gas chambers and furnaces. [8] In the summer of 1944 the camp had up to 1,000 Sonderkommando [9] working in four crematoria (nos. II-V), and a bunker with extra gas chambers, housed in a thatched brick building known as the "little white house". [10]
Gas vans were used, particularly at the Chełmno extermination camp, until gas chambers were developed as a more efficient method for murdering large numbers of people. Two types of gas vans were used by the Einsatzgruppen in the East. The Opel-Blitz, which weighed 3.5 tons, and the larger Saurerwagen, which weighed 7 tons. [17]