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Auschwitz commandant Hoess said that his men would enter the "gas chambers" to remove bodies ten minutes after the victims had died. How do you explain this?
It can't be explained because had they done so they would have suffered the same fate as the "gassing" victims.
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It is described that after the victims had died, fans were turned on to allow the gas to escape. Very little gas remained, too little to have any affect on the men who removed the dead bodies.
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Hoess said in his "confession" that his men would smoke cigarettes as they pulled bodies out of gas chambers, ten minutes after gassing. Isn't Zyklon B explosive?
Yes. The Hoess confession is obviously false.
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Hydrogen cyanide (Zyklon B) forms a foul tasting compound when it combines with tobacco smoke. For this reason, the men who removed the bodies kept a lit cigarette in their mouth while they were working in the gas chambers, as they receive an early warning against possible cyanide poisoning.
It takes a Zyklon B concentration of 300 parts per million to kill a human within a few minutes. Once the fans had been turned on the concentration of Zyklon B would be no more than 5 to 10 parts per million. Zyklon B is only explosive in air at concentrations over 56,000 parts per million. Therefore the Hoess confession is accurate, and the men only ever smoked the cigarettes to protect them from the possibility of a failed extractor fan, or an abnormally high concentration of the gas that couldn't be fully removed in time. There was never enough gas in the chambers under normal circumstances to kill them or to explode, and if there was enough to kill them, the taste in their mouth would warn them and they would exit immediately before the gas had a chance to harm them.