Gas van
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A gas van or gas wagon was a truck re-equipped as a mobile gas chamber. During World War II and the Holocaust, Nazi Germany developed and used gas vans on a large scale to kill inmates of asylums, Rom
Burned-out Magirus-Deutz furniture mover van near Chełmno extermination camp. This van had not been modified, as explained by Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality (1946), but can help the reader visualize the process.
Arthur Nebe
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Arthur Nebe was a German SS functionary who held key positions in the security and police apparatus of Nazi Germany and was, from 1941, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust.
Gas van
…Soldau concentration camp. In August 1941, SS chief Heinrich Himmler attended a demonstration of a mass-shooting of Jews in Minsk that was arranged by Arthur Nebe, after which he vomited. Regaining his composure, Himmler decided that alternative murder techniques should be found. He ordered Nebe to explore more…
Nebe in 1942
From left to right: Franz Josef Huber, Nebe, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich and Heinrich Müller, November 1939 in Munich.