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Zyklon

or Zyklon B, the German name for a chemical pesticide used in concentration camps Majdanek and Auschwitz. (Zyklon is the German word for Cyclone) First developed by Fritz Haber, then produced as a delousing agent. The first use of Zyklon B in Auschwitz was on 600 Soviet Prisoners of War.
Zyklon is the chemical agent used to kill many innocent people during the Holocaust.

Zyklon B was the chemical reagent used to kill many innocent people during the Holocaust.

by ThrashMechaniX May 27, 2006