re: WW2 Question

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It was dropped through holes in the ceiling. Zyklon B was in the form of pellets. Not trying to be a wiseass just pointing out reality from fiction. Now carbon monoxide as was used in other Polish camps perhaps was used in that way. Treblinka and a few other camps were said to have used the carbon monoxide method if memory serves.

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The Nazis did start out using sealed box trucks modified to pump the exhaust into the back but this proved to be inefficient due to the limited number of people that could be killed at once. They also used trucks and I think generators to pump carbon monoxide into sealed rooms as well. They did this for a while before after some experimentation on Soviet POW's did they learn that using the pesticide Zyklon B would allow them to really ramp up their killings.