The Nazis used gas vans and gas chambers as a method of systematic mass murder. They first experimented with the use of lethal poison gas in the so-called Euthanasia Program. The Nazis later applied gassing methods to murder millions of Jews and other victims at the killing centers.
Hartheim castle, a euthanasia killing center where people with physical and mental disabilities were killed by gassing and lethal injection. Hartheim, Austria, date uncertain.
Item ViewBuses that transported patients from the Eichberg hospital near Wiesbaden to the Hadamar euthanasia center, where the patients were gassed or killed by lethal injection. Germany, between May and September 1941.
Item ViewIn August 1943 a gas chamber was installed in this building, seen here after the liberation of the camp, in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. France, 1945.
Item ViewInterior of a gas chamber at the Majdanek camp. Majdanek, Poland, after July 24, 1944.
Item ViewZyklon B pellets found at the liberation of the Majdanek camp. Poland, after July 1944.
Item ViewGas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz. Photograph taken immediately after liberation. Poland, January 1945.
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