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If you're saying Nazis injected hydrogen cyanide from the ceiling to mass kill people, I got some questions. Not even disputing the numbers. The idea is just so asinine on its face.
What are you going to argue, hydrogen cyanide doesn't lead to cyanide poisoning?
Mostly just take issue with introducing a lighter than air poison from the ceiling. If you're building a purpose built controlled environment, introduce it from the floor. Hell, use actual showers to activate Zyklon B through floor grates.
It's just so fucking stupid how it's proposed to have happened. Absolutely degenerate inefficiency.
The Zyklon B cans contained the gas in solid state. Such granules will fall using gravitation down to the floor.
Here's the process in a movie if you need to be shown visually: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zo6i0e_c0P4
Yes, and it takes the pellets 15-20 minutes to evaporate under absolutely ideal conditions (high heat and air-flow). If you just dump them, more like 2+ hours.
It'd make a damned poor fumigant if it instantly activated when you were spreading it around the area.
If you were using it in this fashion, a ventilating machine would about be mandatory.
https://furtherglory.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/machine06.jpg
This machine at Dachau has some plausibility, but the whole "dumping pellets in the room" is just dumb. Of course, introducing it in gaseous form poses its own problems.
So your complaint is about the placement of entry holes?
Do you not understand that in a sealed room, you can still increase the parts-per-million to a lethal amount?
Honestly, the first thing that comes to my mind is that it's harder to reach, cover-up, or otherwise block.
The excuses you guys make are ridiculous.
You do understand that getting on the floor in a sealed room, and being still, will effectively isolate you from LTA poison gas. Oxygen consumption would be your biggest enemy. Now, a system of circulation could make this work, but not the showerhead nonsense they display at the famous labor camp. Anyway, why the effort to build something typhus would be (and likely was) infinitely more efficient at?
Simply doing nothing in a typhus epidemic would accomplish more, quicker.