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[td]Starting in 1941, gas chambers were used at [[extermination camp]]s in Poland for the mass-murder of [[Jews]], [[Romani people|Roma]], and other victims of [[the Holocaust]]. Gas vans were used at the [[CheΕ‚mno extermination camp]]. The [[Operation Reinhard]] extermination camps at [[Belzec extermination camp|Belzec]], [[Sobibor extermination camp|Sobibor]], and [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]] used exhaust fumes from stationary [[diesel engine]]s.<ref name="USHMM-HE" />[/td]
[td]Starting in 1941, gas chambers were used at [[extermination camp]]s in Poland for the mass-murder of [[Jews]], [[Romani people|Roma]], and other victims of [[the Holocaust]]. Gas vans were used at the [[CheΕ‚mno extermination camp]]. The [[Operation Reinhard]] extermination camps at [[Belzec extermination camp|Belzec]], [[Sobibor extermination camp|Sobibor]], and [[Treblinka extermination camp|Treblinka]] used exhaust fumes from stationary [[diesel engine]]s.<ref name="USHMM-HE" />[/td]
[td][[File:Auschwitz-crematorium-II-openings-1943.jpg|thumb|350x350px|The openings through which Zyklon B was poured into the gas chamber of crematoria II at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] are visible in this February 1943 photo, taken by SS Dietrich Kammann.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pressac |first=Jean-Claude |url=https://archive.org/details/JCPAuschwitzTechniqueAndOperationOfTheGasChambers/mode/1up |title=Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers |date=1989 |publisher=The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |pages=340 |url-access=limited |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Poles Ludwik Lawin and Taduesz Kubik, who worked in the camp photography studio, stole a number of Kammann's [[Negative (photography)|negatives]] and buried them.<ref>{{Cite web |last=www.auschwitz.org |title=Pictures taken by the SS / Informing the world / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau |url=https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/informing-the-world/pictures-taken-by-the-ss |url-status=live |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250525023422/https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/informing-the-world/pictures-taken-by-the-ss |archive-date=2025-05-25 |access-date=2025-06-10 |website=Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum |language=en}}</ref>]][/td]
[td][[File:Auschwitz-crematorium-II-openings-1943.jpg|thumb|350x350px|The openings through which Zyklon B was poured into the gas chamber of crematoria II at [[Auschwitz Birkenau]] are visible in this February 1943 photo, taken by SS Dietrich Kammann.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pressac |first=Jean-Claude |url=https://archive.org/details/JCPAuschwitzTechniqueAndOperationOfTheGasChambers/mode/1up |title=Auschwitz: Technique and operation of the gas chambers |date=1989 |publisher=The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |pages=340 |url-access=limited |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Poles Ludwik Lawin and Taduesz Kubik, who worked in the camp photography studio, stole a number of Kammann's [[Negative (photography)|negatives]] and buried them.<ref>{{Cite web |last=www.auschwitz.org |title=Pictures taken by the SS / Informing the world / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau |url=https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/informing-the-world/pictures-taken-by-the-ss |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250525023422/https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/informing-the-world/pictures-taken-by-the-ss |archive-date=2025-05-25 |access-date=2025-06-10 |website=Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum |language=en}}</ref>]][/td]
[td]In search of more efficient killing methods, the Nazis experimented with using the [[hydrogen cyanide]]-based [[fumigation|fumigant]] [[Zyklon B]] at the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]]. This method was adopted for mass-murder at the Auschwitz and [[Majdanek concentration camp|Majdanek]] camps. Up to 6,000 victims were gassed with Zyklon B each day at Auschwitz.<ref name="USHMM-HE" />[/td]
[td]In search of more efficient killing methods, the Nazis experimented with using the [[hydrogen cyanide]]-based [[fumigation|fumigant]] [[Zyklon B]] at the [[Auschwitz concentration camp]]. This method was adopted for mass-murder at the Auschwitz and [[Majdanek concentration camp|Majdanek]] camps. Up to 6,000 victims were gassed with Zyklon B each day at Auschwitz.<ref name="USHMM-HE" />[/td]
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