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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.
No, it won't. ... Good damn you...
You can't have infinite density hydrogen cyanide floating above air because it's "lighter". As you increase the parts per million, the gas will still disperse, just not evenly everywhere.
And this wouldn't make any difference where you put an entrance for the gas.
For god's sake your argument would defeat the purpose of fumigation and delousing as well. By your own argument, it would be physically impossible to fumigate buildings because the hydrogen cyanide would only go to the ceilings. Yet we know for a fact that it was used for both fumigation and murder.
On top of that, if you push a dense crowd of strangers together they're not just going to quietly and orderly lay on the ground.
You're proving my case about the ignorance, man.
Because typhus is a disease, is not efficient at all, can kill off the guards, can spread to the local population, will leave some people alive, and can't be readily deployed or contained.
Yes, a poison gas chamber is a much more reasonable process of murdering people than infecting everyone with typhus and hoping for the best.
If you increase the parts per million, you're either a) extracting oxygen below or b) pressurizing the chamber. That's the only way the mechanics of it work at all, and I haven't seen any evidence of air ventilation or circulation systems. Maybe pressurization, but again, it's a lot of work for poor gains. When people are surviving multiple trips (probably the best evidence that they were, in fact, used), you'd expect a refinement of a design if there's widespread implementation. No real evidence of that.
It's not that I don't believe such a method was used, just that I have doubts the method was much beyond experimental. They didn't seem to work very well, base on eyewitness testimony and description.
For typhus, delousing stations (and zyklon B) were widespread precisely because of German knowledge of typhus. Still, it ran rampant through German ranks and camps. The idea that it could spread where you don't want it is silly, because it's documented fact that it did. All you need to make it incredibly deadly is to neglect treatment. Add in some malnourishment to increase efficacy. Sulfonamides, rest, and nourishment would have been adequate for most to recover, though, if you had the supplies and desire.