Belzec Concentration Camp

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tank was installed in a shed just outside, and exhaust fumes were piped into the chambers. Many believed that carbon monoxide was a reliable form of gassing. However, this form of gassing, at the beginning, functioned very inefficiently. A report from a SS colonial concludes this. In it he says, "[Sergeant] Hackenholt was making great efforts to get the engine running. But it doesn't go up...My stopwatch showed it all, 50 minutes, 70 minutes, and the diesel did not start. The people wait inside the gas chamber. In vain...After 2 hours and 49 minutes-the stopwatch recorded it all-the diesel started...the people shut up in those four crowded chambers were alive, four times 750 in four times 45 cubic meters...25 minutes elapsed. Many were dead...but some were still struggling for life...Finally, after 32 minutes, all were dead." In Belzec, the entrance of the concentration camp was made to look like an ordinary country railway station. Flowers and shrubs were planted. Doors bore ...

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