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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Wiercinski said later that he had to explain what Zyklon B was to members of the jury.
Mangia 57 Restaurant Worker Awarded $900,000 for Anti-Semitic Nazi Gas Jokes
BBC News Online reports today that "German engineering giant Siemens has hastily abandoned plans to register the trademark 'Zyklon,' the same name as the Zyklon B poison gas used in Nazi extermination camps.
Zyklon Trademark Application Abandoned by Siemens Same Week That Umbro Apologizes for Using Name; Product Naming Company Says Mistake Should Have Been Avoided
Zyklon B crystals were used to murder millions of Jewish people in concentration camps during the World War II holocaust.
Umbro blasted in Nazi gas blunder
Beginning with a hypermeticulous analysis of Zyklon B, the gas used to kill millions in the concentration camps, the documentary approach quickly fractures into a necessarily personal one, underscoring the impossibility of making sense of the senseless.
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He did not explain how the Nazis discovered its lethal capabilities, but nine cans of Zyklon B were sufficient to gas 1,500 people.
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The letter, signed by a mysterious group decrying globalisation, claimed an attack with Zyklon B gas used in some World War II Nazi death camps would be launched between 9 am and noon if air traffic was not shut down.
Poison gas alert at airport
So I did a bit of research and discovered that, before the invention of Zyklon B (the deadly gas), the same company had developed Zyklon A.
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Zyklon B was used by Germany during World War Two to kill people in concentration camps.
'Nazi killer gas' shoe is banned
Zyklon B crystals were used to exterminate millions of Jewish people during World War II at camps, including the most notorious, Auschwitz.
Firm says sorry over its `Nazi gas' trainers
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