Steve F wrote:Hektor wrote:Or even easier, if it has to be something gas chamber like, seal of a room and make some fire in a space connected to the room. If the room is packed with people, it should asphyxiate them at virtually no cost.Atigun wrote:When it came to killing Jews, why did the Germans seem to go out of their way to use the most cumbersome, improbable, inefficient and expensive methods possible? If the Germans were set on gassing Jews inside vans, why didn't they simply use a producer gas fueled van? Pick up a load of Jews at collection point A, drive to disposal area B, park the van, shut off the motor, direct the CO fuel into the van until all the Jews were dead, unload dead bodies, start engine, return to point A, repeat. Why drive aimlessly about, wasting precious liquid fuel needed for tanks, aircraft, etc. when there were literally hundreds of thousands of such CO generators available in Germany?
Here is a small fraction of the thousands of German scientists of the Third Reich available to design a "final solution", and they came up with diesel exhaust and a slow acting insecticide:
Operation Paperclip
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Right - masters of chemistry, pioneers in nuclear-science, rocketry and so forth all at their disposal, but instead they chose to employ old Russian tank-engines, disinfestation agents and the like, used in the most utterly improbable, implausible and illogical fashions imaginable, to carry out industrial mass-murder. Yeah sure...that all makes perfect sense.
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