Dying in Zyklon B during the holocaust has been horrible than dying in gas chambers

 Dying in Zyklon B during the holocaust has been horrible than dying in gas chambers

Zyklon-B is a cyanide-based compound that comes in crystal form. When the crystals are heated to a certain temperature, it turns to gas.

When people arrived at Auschwitz they were greeted by dogs, machine guns, and SS grunts. They were told to disinfect before entering the camp and that was forced into the gas chambers. Once inside the horror started.

The doors were latched, the lights were killed, and fear set in among the victims. Moments later holes in the roof were opened and Zyklon-B was poured in. Now exposed to the heat of the crowd and the oxygen in the room, the crystals turned to gas and the gas began to rise.

People then began to fight and panic. Some tried to get higher where oxygen was still available, trampling on the old, young, and sick to do so. Others shoved towards the door pressing in and causing a crush.

Place yourself there- in that crowd. It’s dark, poison gas is seeping upward from the ground, and everyone is in panic pushing climbing, desperate, and afraid. Maybe you were shoved in the gas chambers with your spouse or your children, maybe your parents or your siblings. Panic- manic horrible panic sweeps through the crowd. People shove, scrape, fight, and climb. From one direction you feel the push of dozens or hundreds of people as they try to get through the door. At the same time, people are climbing over and around you. In the dark, you lose your loved ones and you yourself begin to panic, fearing that death is coming and that you are helpless to stop it.

Then you breathe in the gas. First, you get a headache followed by dizziness and overall weakness. Your chest hurts and you find that you cannot breathe. Apnea sets in you try to inhale but you cannot. This feeling of suffocation adds to the terror, to the panic. After a few seconds or minutes of this pain and terror, you collapse into a state of unconsciousness. Your body begins to breathe rapidly inhaling more gas and your unconsciousness slides into a comatose state and then finally death.

This is what it was like to be in those gas chambers. This is what so many millions suffered.

See this crowd below, it's 1 million people. This is how many people died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz (around 900,000 to be exact).

At Treblinka, which used exhaust fumes instead of Zykon-B, a further 800,000 were killed. In total, about 2.5 million died in the gas chambers.