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Zyklon B
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Zyklon B
A deadly chemical based on cyanide noted for use in gas chambers during the Holocaust. It is used occasionally as a pesticide.


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Imber (ethics and sociology, Wellesley College) has brought together perspectives drawn from both Eastern and Western religions and an almost startling range of discrete examples: from the historical example of the chemical company that created Zyklon-B (the poison gas used in Nazi concentration camps) to animal welfare.
He didn't live to see the Zyklon-B gas that he developed as an insecticide become the agent of extermination of Jews, including members of his own family, in Nazi concentration camps.
GAS chambers used the deadly Zyklon-B gas and purpose-built crematoria disposed of the bodies.
 
 
 
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