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neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months agoAlright let’s stop it here.
Btw there weren’t any gas showers, they were put into huge slaughterhouses that were then filled with Zyklon B.
Idk where the myth of the shower comes from.
They were told they were being given showers, and there were fake showerheads installed to continue the ruse. There were no pipes connected to the showers, the Nazis dropped canisters down shoots.
This is something we have to be careful when talking about - because all of those complicated discrepancies between memory and rumor are the muck Holocaust deniers like to throw everywhere. I found an online “uncensored Holocaust encyclopedia” on the first page of DuckDuckGo before I found this link.
Guards hold them they would be taking showers to get them to go willingly and remove their clothes (easier than doing it after they’re dead).
Or so I’ve heard, anyway.
Pretty much, yes but the slaughter houses were said to be shower areas and were sometimes even disguised in a manner (signs and fake shower heads).
I loathe to link to Reddit, but askhistorians /u/commiespaceinvader is s legit source as Holocaust historian:
tomenzgg@midwest.social 10 months ago
Probably because that’s what some had been told they would be taking before entering the slaughterhouse; but just a guess, on my part.