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GAS-INTRODUCTION-DEVICE.JPG shows the device which was used to 
introduce Zyklon B into the gas chamber of the Mauthausen concentration 
camp. The photograph was made by the US troops who liberated the camp in 1945:

   National Archives, Washington, OSS, entry 110, box 4, folder 86, Dupont 
   Mission, photo US signal corps, reproduced in Freund, Florian: "Toetungen 
   durch Giftgas in Mauthausen und Gusen", in: _Wahrheit und Auschwitzluege:
   zur Bekaempfung "revisionistischer" Propaganda"_, eds.: Brigitte 
   Bailer-Galand et al., Wien: Deuticke, 1995, pp. 119-136, here p. 126.

Nele Abels (abels@stud-mailer.uni-marburg.de)

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