The first gas murders were done on mentally handicapped / mentally ill children and adults using bottled carbon monoxide gas. As CO is a large component of coal gas, it may have been bottled coal gas from any local town supply, without a noxious detection agent added. The shower ruse was invented during the "
Aktion T4" euthanasia program, along with other experience gained from this, including the use of reassuring white lab coats. Also doing dissections and organ preservations to give things a scientific air, helping participants to dissociate from what they were doing.
Later, in the first death camp, the crowded gas chamber was supplied with CO straight from the exhausts of two Russian tank engines.
Later Cyklon-B hydrogen cyanide tablets were used. They were intended for fumigation and so had a cautionary eye irritant added to make the gas detectable. Cyklon B was first made by a German company, Degesh in the early 1920s. HCN had been used prior to this, since 1880, for fumigation and in late WW1 as a chemical weapon by the French, the Italians, and the Americans and as it is/was a common industrial chemical it is doubtful it would have required to be imported. It was used by US authorities too, for delousing of immigrants possessions etc. and significant portions of the SS use of Cyklon B was for that purpose too. Two Cyklon-B inventors/businessmen were hanged in 1946 for having knowingly sold it to the SS for use on humans, the SS business having accounted for 8% of Degesh's sales of the product. They must have "cooperated" VERY well to deserve such punishment, I guess.
How it all started: Yesterday afternoon I visited a German site where thousands mentally defectives were murdered, many by being fed a deliberate starvation diet of fake food. The medical director of the mental institution in question got 10 years, possibly because there is an inner Nazi in many which agrees with eugenics and that some lives are worth less than others.
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1938 poster showing a fake doctor behind someone obviously suffering from cerebral palsy reads:
"60,000 Reichsmark is what this person suffering from a hereditary defect costs society during his lifetime.
Fellow citizen, that is your money too. Read 'NEW PEOPLE', the monthly magazine of the Bureau for Race Politics of the NSDAP."
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