Survivor guilt
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Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
Many such stories. I'm not saying that Nazi Germany wasn't a complete shitshow full of atrocity. The record is just really fucked. The Zyklon B gas chambers, in particular, stink to me. Diesel exhaust gas chambers, on the other hand, are at least sound in theory.
But that's not the story.
I also know that 9/11 was real, and there are people who lie that they were victims in that too.
That's just ridiculous.
You are prepared to except everything but the one component, for reasoning that is totally asinine. A sealed diesel gas chamber would increase pressure just like a Zyklon B gas chamber would. And diesel engine emissions are also lighter than air.
No, my problem lies in the implausibility of using a commercial fumigant designed for safer application than sodium cyanide and acid. It just doesn't make sense at any level. If they dumped the zyklon directly in the chamber, it's going to be releasing HCN for up to 72 hours, based on heat and airflow conditions. If they heated the granules and cycled the air, it may have worked in the "advertised" 30 minutes. But again, that's not even the claim.
A diesel engine's exhaust, in itself, creates pressure and poison. This make sense. Emissions circulate. It was also apparently used, though the record says the "blue skin" (it's red) and excrement from carbon monoxide poisoning was too traumatic for the executioners.
Again, the story stinks. There's just too much bullshit. Just dump sodium cyanide in some acid. This will get you the desired result (as we do in the US). Don't use some slow release diatomaceous earth.
Given some of your previous arguments, I'm not confident in your understanding of the chemicals themselves. And I wouldn't be surprised if there were additional modifications to what the government ordered, versus what you are aware of.
I especially don't trust it when you say things like the diesel emissions make pressure, as if the Zyklon B wouldn't.
I doubt that very much. It's far more likely they were traumatized by the labor of actually killing and burying thousands of people. The blue skin might have stuck out to them, but the incessant murder was probably the thing that actually did them in. This is one of the things that generated the Milgram Experiment, because the National Socialists were looking to improve moral and keep good order & discipline among their executioners. Turns out people's minds start to break when you actively seek to kill people in the dozens, every day, for weeks on end. Even heavily indoctrinated soldiers didn't last much longer. Hence why they built camps, hence why they had Sonderkommandos.
So you're claiming what? They were using Zyklon A? That's a new one.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-97999-1_8
This doesn't really sound like a hydrogen cyanide death at all.