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Zyklon B (245 words) |
 | Zyklon B was the tradename of a pesticide. |
| Zyklon B was used in the concentration camps initially for delousing to control typhus. |
| Zyklon B was provided by the German companies 'Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung GmbH) and Tesch und Stabenow, under license from I.G. Farben, which held the patent. |
| Zyklon B at AllExperts (957 words) |
| Zyklon B (IPA tsykloËn ËbeË, also spelled Cyclon B) was the tradename of a cyanide-based insecticide notorious for its use by Nazi Germany to kill over one million people in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and Majdanek during the Holocaust. |
| Zyklon B was originally developed by Fritz Haber, a German Jew who was forced to emigrate in 1933. |
| Modern Holocaust deniers assert that Zyklon B gas was not used in the gas chambers, as evidenced by the low levels of Prussian Blue residue in the chambers, as found by Fred A. Leuchter, for instance. |
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