Zyklon B
Holocaust gas chambers
Zyklon B was a cyanide-based pesticide used by Nazi Germany to murder approximately one million people in gas chambers during the Holocaust, primarily at Auschwitz.
Originally developed as a fumigant for delousing, it became the principal instrument of industrialized genocide.
The name derives from German for "cyclone."
- gasFormless, expanding substance
- cyanideToxic carbon-nitrogen compound
- HolocaustNazi genocide of Jews
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
Nazi Germany · Auschwitz · fumigation · Prussian blue · moral responsibility · hydrogen cyanide · remembrance · pesticide · extermination · human rights · war crimes · concentration camps · organic chemistry · lethal dose · deportation · chamber · memorialization · Nazi
- gasesgas, air, oxygen, helium, nitrogen
- HolocaustHolocaust, Auschwitz, concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, gas chambers
- WMD threatschemical weapons, biological weapon, biological warfare, bioterrorism, chemical weapon
- Chemical Warfarechemical weapons, poison gas, mustard gas, chlorine gas, phosgene
- prison campsconcentration camp, prison camps, labor camp, gulags, internment camp
Zyklon Bpenicillin
Fungus-derived infection fighter
antidote · vaccine · insulin · antibiotics · oxygen
Zyklon BKindertransport
Wartime child refugee program
hiding place · safe house · escape route · Underground Railroad · refugee visa
Zyklon BAllied victory
Successful end for partners