Zyklon B is a pesticide that is in the form of small blue tablets. This pesticide was used for disinfecting ships, barracks, clothing, warehouses, factories, granaries, and many more. Zyklon B was used for disinfecting many things. It was also used before and during World War II This is what killed millions of Jewish and non-Jewish people. Since this insecticide or pesticide would kill bugs and rats, Nazis may have thought this could kill people. Thats is porbably …show more content…
These pellets where used for after killing rats and insects, but soon later on in the Holocaust, it was used for to kill people. This highly poisonous insecticide would cut off the oxygen to those in the gas chambers. These small tiny pellets killed/suffocated millions of jews and thousands of others. Zyklon B came inside small wide container, a stockpile of it was found in Majdanek death camps in 1944. Containers held Hydrocyanic Acid (Zyklon B) that would be vaporized when exposed to air. Its uses was to be an insecticide and disinfectant. After a while of Nazi’s experimentation on gases, they found out later that Zyklon B could also killed people. These amethyst-blue pellets stained the walls of the air-tight gas chambers inside. These pellets would also give off a strong odor that also helped suffocated the people inside the gas …show more content…
It would suffocate the victims inside the gas chambers with its harmful gas. Adding to that, most say once doors were opened for newcomers came it would give off a bad odor. To speed the process up, when some new it was going to suffocate them, that sang so it would suffocate them quicker and instead of struggling much harder than before. The only thing was when you go into a concentration camp, and you were old, sick, too young, or just didn’t look good, you would be walked and had to undress to get into the “showers”. Concentration Camps called the gas chambers “showers” so others would think they were just being cleaned off when really they were being sent to their death. But how it all starts off is, jews and non-jews would get undressed. Some would even take off their jewelry since they thought it was a shower the might get their stuff back, others kept it on because most Nazi’s were not to be trusted. Soon all the naked people would have to go inside the gas chambers, then he door would be shut airtight. The it would take about 10 to 20 minutes for the gas to go into the chamber and suffocate people, then within 10 to 15 minutes all whom was inside the chamber would be dead. Once everyone in the chamber was dead Nazi’s would go inside and take the jewelry off of women and