A Study of the Cyanide Compounds Content
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in the Walls of the Gas Chambers
in the Former Auschwitz & Birkenau
Concentration Camps
TABLE IV. CONCENTRATIONS OF CYANIDE IONS IN SAMPLES
COLLECTED IN THE FACILITIES FOR THE FUMIGATION OF
PRISONERS' CLOTHES
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Site Place Sample No Concentration of
CN~ in µg/kg
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Auschwitz Block No.1 (1)
1 4,4,4
2 0
3, iron hook 0
4, piece of 0
wood from a door
Block No.3 (2)
5 0
6 900,840,880
7 0
8 16,12,16
Two series of
determinations I. 70,30,74,142,422
were made in II. 118,52,80,60,214
block No 3 in 1990
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Birkenau Bath-house
Camp B1-A
53 (3) 24, 20, 24
53a (3) 224, 248, 228
54 (3) 36, 28, 32
55 (3) 736, 740 ,640
56 (4) 4, 0, 0
57 (5) 840, 792, 840
58 (5) 348, 324, 348
59 (6) 28, 28, 28
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(1) Dwelling quarters next to cobbler workshop and disinfection chambers.
(2) Disinfection facilities
(3) Materials taken from the outer side of the building wall
(4) Mortar taken from the outer side of the building wall
(5) Plaster taken from dark-blue stains on the inner side of the building wall
(6) Plaster from white walls inside the building