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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
The gas chambers were used to fumigate clothing to rid them of lice, which were the carriers of typhus. There is no evidence whatsoever that these chambers were used to kill millions of people.
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I've been to one of the camps - Majdanek. It was going to be the largest camp if it was finished but the war ended before they finished it. I don't know what it looks like at the other camps as I haven't been to any others, but at least at that one there was quite a bit of housing and barrack
I saw the gas chamber too. While I can't rule out that it was used to kill people,
- It was maybe 140cm ceiling at best, not enough to stand up in, and was quite small.
- The shower room was at least 10 times the size of the gas chamber.
- There was 3 rooms. A main room (presumably to get undressed) which contained a fenced cage with cans of Zyklon-B, and then two doors - one to the gas chamber and one to the showers.
I'm not saying people didn't get killed or executed there by any means and this might look completely different at the other camps, but what i personally saw at Majdanek supports the fumigation idea. As was written earlier though, it could be that some were "prison camps" and some were "death camps".