Zyklon B is a German pesticide, initially developed for industrial applications. Beginning in 1942, the Nazis used it to mass-murder Jewish people in the gas chambers of concentration camps.
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Zyklon B Term Timeline in Schindler’s List
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Chapter 4
...didn’t know that Madagascar would eventually be replaced by a much deadlier solution: the pesticide Zyklon B .
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Chapter 33
...Folke Bernadotte. After invading Russians excavated the Lublin camp, news of Germany gassing Jews with Zyklon B was suddenly published around the world. Himmler was secretly trying to make himself a successor...
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...murdered any Auschwitz prisoners by hand, preferring instead to rely on more clinical methods like Zyklon B gas. The story goes that it was Höss himself that Schindler had to negotiate with...
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