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Bryan Manson's avatar

Is this the same Typhus they tried to kill with the Zyklon B??

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Yusuf JP Saleeby MD's avatar

Zyklon B is a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s. It was used as an insecticide to disinfect ships, barracks, clothing, warehouses, factories, granaries, and more before and during World War II.

It was produced in crystal form, creating amethyst-blue pellets. However, Zyklon B is most infamously known as the name of the sodium-cyanide-based gas used to kill over a million victims, most of them Jews, in the death camps constructed by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.

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