How painful was it to be gassed at Auschwitz?

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How painful was it to be gassed at Auschwitz?

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  1. hyacinthed Avatar

    In addition to being exceedingly physically painful, the psychological torment would have intensified the agony. Being in an incredibly cramped space, potentially with your loved ones beside you, desperately clawing at the walls and at the people around you to escape. Scratches on gas chamber wall.

  2. A_Wolf_Named_Foxxy Avatar

    Choking to death, all your organs probably intense burning, foaming of the mouth. Yeah, the scratch marks on concrete tell you everything

  3. DemotivatedTurtle Avatar

    Sonderkommando testimony states that the victims would scream and pound on the doors for 10-15 minutes before dying. The room was packed, too; a room meant to hold 500 was routinely filled with 2500 people. The dead were so tightly compacted that they were still standing, and bodies were “contorted, knotted together like a ball of yarn”.

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  4. Argylius Avatar

    Guys this thread is making me sad

  5. PetiteTarte Avatar

    In addition to the gas itself, so many people were shoved in at a time that some of the bodies would still be standing. You’d be crushed to death even if the gas, somehow, didn’t get you first

  6. xoxoxFox Avatar

    I wonder if it’s the same gas they use to kill some animals in factory farms
 videos of how the animals acted won’t get out of my head 😭đŸ„ș