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Auschwitz: The Nazi Experiments

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Auschwitz was the Nazis largest concentration camp and operated from 1940-1945. In September 1941, the Nazis experimented in Auschwitz I with a new method of mass murder. Gassing prisoners using a chemical called Zyklon B. These experiments proved to be so successful, that the Nazis decided to build a much larger camp called Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they placed large gas chambers and crematoriums. These gas chambers had been specially built for this purpose, with a number of gas chambers at Auschwitz increasing, each year. Once people were inside the chambers, the door were shut and sealed. Zyklon B, a cyanide based poison was dropped through vents. Death took up to 20 minutes. Those prisoners who had arrived at Auschwitz had been selected
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