File:Zyklon Giftgas poison gas container rusty can from Auschwitz KZ-Lager nazi concentration extermination camp Degesch Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung Cyangehalt 200g label (Holocaust exhibition HL-senteret Norway 02.jpg

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English: Old, rusty, empty can/container found in Auschwitz death camp (concentration and extermination camp) at the end of the Second World War. Paper label with text in German: Zyklon Giftgas! ("Cyclone poison gas!") Cyangehalt 200g ("Cyanogen content 200 grams"), Degesch Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung ("Degesch German Corporation for Pest control"), etc.

Zyklon B was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s. Hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous gas that interferes with cellular respiration, was first used as a pesticide in California in the 1880s. Research at Degesch of Germany led to the development of Zyklon, a pesticide that released hydrogen cyanide upon exposure to water and heat. Degesch devised a method of packaging hydrogen cyanide in sealed canisters along with a cautionary eye irritant. From early 1942 the "Zyklon B" variant without odor or irritant was used to execute approximately 1.1 million people in gas chambers installed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and other German extermination camps. Nazi Germany murdered a total of around 6 million Jews during the Holocaust.

Photo of an item from Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on display at the Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities (Norwegian: HL-senteret) in Oslo, Norway.
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