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What was the dying process like in the gas chambers at the concentration camps?

How long did it take the Jews to die in the gas chambers at the death/concentration camps like Auschwitz? What was the dying process like, was it very painful? How many people were crammed into a gas chamber at once? I also heard that the Nazis had "peeking holes" so they would be able to look into the gas chambers and watch the Jews die, is this true?

Public Comments

1. hard to say; there were no surviviors.
2. i beleive that dying would be painless unless it is like choking to death or drowning which is painfull but over quickly there wer many in a gas chamber at once hundreds of them, nazis probably did view them dying yes
3. they often hook diesel gas engines to the gas pipes so it would be like dying of carbon monoxide poisoning... headache, passout, suffocate it was a cheap easy way to access a gas that could kill Jews at an economical rate... sorry but true
4. Ew....OK, you asked for it. The old BBC TV series "World at War" had an episode on the concentration camps. Zyklon B was not instantaneous, it led to a choking, gagging death in about 2-3 minutes. It started from the floor up, as it is heavier than air. Depending on the camp 80 - 100 people or so went in each time. When the doors were opened the bodies were often stacked up like a pyramid, people climbed on the dead and dying to reach the purer air closer to the ceiling until the whole room filled up with gas. I wouldn't recommend watching that episode. I still have nightmares about it. Pretty gruesome stuff.