First off, I hope this question is not too offensive. Discussing technicalities of a genocide will certainly disgust some. I am in no way trying to condone nazi crimes. I am also not sure whether it makes sense to search for rational thought in genocide. Here goes anyway:

Nazi death camps used shower heads to introduce a gas into the gas chambers, thereby killing people. The gas used was Zyklon-B, an industrial product produced by a single supplier, and likely relatively expensive. It also meant that the gas chambers had to be aerated for a number of minutes before soldiers or forced laborers could enter the gas chambers to drag out the corpses.

Why didn’t they simply use CO2? It’s a byproduct of basically any fire. It’s cheap and could have been produced on-site trivially. It’s also part of normal air and only toxic in high concentrations, likely meaning less danger to soldiers.

  • Illegal_Prime@dmv.socialEnglish
    64·
    10 months ago

    This is meta but…

    This post demonstrates the utility of having an r/askhistorians equivalent on lemmy. I seem to remember them being quite outspoken against Reddit’s bullshit, but I’m not sure if they went anywhere.

    • federalreverse-old@feddit.deOP
      25·
      10 months ago

      I don’t think they stayed:

      Sarah Gilbert is a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University and research director of Cornell’s Citizens and Technology Lab; she studies content moderation, online communities, and research ethics. She’s also a moderator for r/askhistorians, a subreddit known for complex modding systems (r/askhistorians is not one of the subreddits with moderators removed by Reddit).

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    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca
      1·
      10 months ago

      I really miss that subreddit and also /r/historymemes. We have a history memes on Lemmy but the content is far from the quality on reddit