Block 11
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Block 11 was the name of a brick building in Auschwitz I, the Stammlager or main camp of the Auschwitz concentration camp network operated by Nazi Germany. This block was used for executions and tortu
Block 11, with the "death wall" to the left
View of Block 11 (left) as seen from the site of the reconstructed death wall
Corridor of Block 11
Zyklon B
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Zyklon B was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s. It consists of hydrogen cyanide, as well as a cautionary eye irritant and one of several adsorbents suc
Block 11
…standing for up to twenty nights, while still being forced to work during the day. It was at Block 11 that the first attempts to kill people with Zyklon B were implemented in September 1941. Prisoner interrogations involving extreme torture were also conducted within Block 11, often with use of the "Boger…
Zyklon labels from Dachau concentration camp used as evidence at the Nuremberg trials; the first and third panels contain manufacturer information and the brand name, the center panel reads "Poison Gas! Cyanide preparation to be opened and used only by trained personnel"
A fumigation team in New Orleans, 1939. Zyklon canisters are visible.
Empty Zyklon B canisters found by the Allies at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945
Rudolf Höss at his trial in Poland, 1947