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demmiblue

(36,865 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 02:13 PM Apr 2015

Zyklon B (for those who apparently don't know)

Zyklon B (German pronunciation: [tsykloːn ˈbeː]; /ˈzaɪklɒn ˈbiː/) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s. It consisted of hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), a warning eye irritant, and one of several adsorbents such as diatomaceous earth. The product is infamous for its use by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust to murder a million people in gas chambers installed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and other extermination camps.

Hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas that interferes with cellular respiration, was first used as a pesticide in California in the 1880s. Research at Degesch of Germany led to the development of Zyklon A, a pesticide which released hydrogen cyanide upon exposure to water and heat. It was banned after a similar product was used by Germany as a chemical weapon in World War I. In 1922, Degesch was purchased by Degussa, where a team of chemists that included Walter Heerdt and Bruno Tesch developed a method of packaging hydrogen cyanide in sealed canisters along with a warning irritant and adsorbent stabilizers. The new product was also named Zyklon, but it became known as Zyklon B to distinguish it from the earlier version. Uses included delousing clothing and disinfecting ships, warehouses, and trains.

In early 1942, Zyklon B emerged as the preferred killing tool of Nazi Germany for use in extermination camps during the Holocaust. The chemical claimed the lives of roughly a million people, most of whom died at Auschwitz. One of the co-inventors of Zyklon B, chemist and businessman Bruno Tesch, was executed in 1946 for knowingly selling the product to the SS for use on humans. Although the use of hydrogen cyanide has been banned or severely restricted in many countries, products similar to Zyklon B are still manufactured by Detia-Degesch (successor to Degesch) and by Adezin, a Czech firm.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B

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Zyklon B (for those who apparently don't know) (Original Post) demmiblue Apr 2015 OP
OK...I give. What's this in reference to? Behind the Aegis Apr 2015 #1
I think this... PeaceNikki Apr 2015 #2
Wow. That was just disgusting. Behind the Aegis Apr 2015 #5
I was Juror # 1 PeaceNikki Apr 2015 #7
Why didn't you use the "f" word? Behind the Aegis Apr 2015 #10
I don't fuckin' know. It just falls outta my face/fingertips sometimes. PeaceNikki Apr 2015 #12
LOL! Sounds like me! Behind the Aegis Apr 2015 #13
Can we watch the fucking language please? zappaman Apr 2015 #14
Is it Utah that wants to use something similar for executions? randome Apr 2015 #3
Dunno. That's why I asked. Apparently it was in reference to a hidden post. Behind the Aegis Apr 2015 #6
So disgusting I don't see why another thread was needed. Oh, well... randome Apr 2015 #8
Perhaps you should ask your own question to the OP as I did. Behind the Aegis Apr 2015 #11
Maybe Spider Jerusalem Apr 2015 #15
For that i would get a hide reddread Apr 2015 #16
Yup. I saw that dumbass post too...nt SidDithers Apr 2015 #4
Apparently Jean Marie Le Pen mylye2222 Apr 2015 #9

Behind the Aegis

(53,961 posts)
1. OK...I give. What's this in reference to?
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 02:15 PM
Apr 2015

I know what it is. I am guessing more than a few here know what it is. So why the reminder?

PeaceNikki

(27,985 posts)
2. I think this...
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 02:16 PM
Apr 2015

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WOA! WAIT A SECOND! ZYKLON B????????

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Explanation: WOW... how fucking despicable! I can't believe I just read that.
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Behind the Aegis

(53,961 posts)
5. Wow. That was just disgusting.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 02:18 PM
Apr 2015

There is "dark humor" and then there is "bottom of the barrel slime"; this was the latter!

PeaceNikki

(27,985 posts)
12. I don't fuckin' know. It just falls outta my face/fingertips sometimes.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 02:23 PM
Apr 2015

Other times, it doesn't.

But it's good to know that I CAN use it now. .

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
3. Is it Utah that wants to use something similar for executions?
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 02:17 PM
Apr 2015

[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)
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Behind the Aegis

(53,961 posts)
6. Dunno. That's why I asked. Apparently it was in reference to a hidden post.
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 02:19 PM
Apr 2015

The post was quite disgusting.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
8. So disgusting I don't see why another thread was needed. Oh, well...
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 02:20 PM
Apr 2015

[hr][font color="blue"][center]“If you're not committed to anything, you're just taking up space.”
Gregory Peck, Mirage (1965)
[/center][/font][hr]

 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
15. Maybe
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 03:12 PM
Apr 2015

but it's Nevada, and California, and New Mexico, and Arizona, and Oregon, and Wyoming, and Mississippi, and Missouri, and North Carolina, that formerly used something similar for executions. The Nazis got the idea of using gas chambers for executions from the USA. Along with a lot of their ideas about eugenics.

 

mylye2222

(2,992 posts)
9. Apparently Jean Marie Le Pen
Mon Apr 20, 2015, 02:20 PM
Apr 2015

has a copy of himself over here..... Despicable to joke on something that killed millions during the Holocaust

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