The German Nazi Concentration and Death camp of Majdanek. Gas chambers.

The German concentration camp in Lublin, called Majdanek, was initiated by Heinrich Himmler’s decision. Visiting Lublin in July 1941, Himmler entrusted Odilo Globocnik, the SS and police commander in the Lublin district, with building a camp “for 25-50,000 inmates who would be used to work in SS and police workshops and at construction sites”. The camp was going to be the source of a free workforce for the Third Reich's expansion in the East.
Initial plans concerning the size of the camp were modified a couple of times, with the area of the camp and the planned number of prisoners being enlarged each time. The so-called “general construction plan” to build Majdanek was authorized on 23 March 1942. According to its assumptions, the camp would have the capacity of keeping 150,000 prisoners. Thereby Majdanek was to become the largest camp in the German-occupied Europe. However, economic difficulties and the Wehrmacht's failures on the eastern front prevented the SS from fulfilling this plan completely.
The Majdanek camp was subordinate to the Concentration Camps Inspectorate (Inspektion der Konzentrationslager), and from March 1942 to the Economics and Administrative Department of the SS (SS-Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt). The camp was administered by a commandant supported by a garrison of up to 1,200 people. The camp commandant' position was held respectively by: Karl Otto Koch, Max Koegel, Hermann Florstedt, Martin Weiß, and Arthur Liebehenschel.
The camp, built from autumn 1941, was initially called Kriegsgefangenenlager der Waffen SS Lublin - a camp for prisoners of war, and in February 1943 was renamed Konzentrationslager Lublin - a concentration camp. The official functions of a POW camp and concentration camp did not exhaust the tasks allocated to Majdanek by the German authorities. Konzentrationslager Lublin was also a link in the realisation of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Qestion". In addition it was used as a penal and transit camp for the Polish rural population.
The camp, situated in the south-eastern suburbs of Lublin, on the road to Zamość and Lwów, occupied an area of 470 ha. It consisted of three sectors: the SS sector, the economic sector, and the prisoner camp (Schutzhaftlager), which was made up of five prisoner fields with wooden barracks as the accommodation for inmates. Their primitive construction, the lack of basic sanitation, and the overcrowdedness contributed to the growing mortality rate in the camp. The situation was made even worse by the shortage of water, food, clothes, and medicines. Certain improvement in the living conditions took place almost at the end of Konzentrationslager Lublin's history. In October 1942, the first females were detained as the camp for women was established at field V. Although the plan to create a camp for children at Majdanek was never realised, some Jewish, Belarusian, and Polish children from the Zamość region were also imprisoned at the camp. On the grounds of Konzentrationslager Lublin there was also a field hospital for the former Soviet soldiers that became invalids during their service for Germany. Majdanek additionally had several sub-camps including two labour camps in Lublin (Flugplatz on the grounds of the former Plage-Laśkiewicz airport and aircraft factory), and in Lipowa Street; as well as the labour camps in Budzyń, Radom, Bliżyn, and KL Warschau.
Prisoners came from nearly 30 countries. The former citizens of Poland dominated (mainly Polish Jews and Poles) but there were also many prisoners from the Soviet Union, Slovakia, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Apart from Poles and Jews, the Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians constituted the largest groups of inmates. Other nationalities included smaller numbers of inmates from France, Belgium, Germany, Norway, Italy,
From the very beginning of their detention at the camp, the prisoners were inevitably accompanied by hunger, fear, backbreaking work, and diseases. For all real or even alleged offences, the inmates were severely punished and persecuted. Prisoners’ lives were constantly threatened. They died in the aftermath of wretched living conditions, they were executed and murdered in gas chambers. Among an estimated 130,000 prisoners who entered Majdanek, 80,000 people perished at the camp according to the most recent research. Among them, the greatest number of victims included the Jews from various countries (about 60,000), Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, and Russians. In order to remove the crime evidence, the victim's corpses were burnt on pyres or in the crematoria.
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[@VickGos-yr2gi]

Oh my god I can’t imagine the horror and inhumanity of it all.

[@JackFrost008]

The nazis, communists and japanese lost their humanity because of the things they did.

[@ravinder5545]

First of all the audio is not clear. What was the procedure of giving the poisonous gas to the victims.

[@sky-heritage-pictures_films]

There were diffrent procedures tested. At first carbon monoxide from pressurized bottles was tested. Latter Zyclone - B gas started to be used.

[@inesmolina1598]

Dolor eterno ,vergüenza en el rostro , sólo petición de perdón para alcanzar la paz del alma .

[@dpjbdpjb]

Question: which room(s) was the Zyklon B gas chamber(s) for humans?

[@williamsherman3047]

For some reason, he stopped the tour before he got to the two alleged has chambers.

[@sky-heritage-pictures_films]

In the last two rooms which were constructed of reinforced concrete and added to the orginal wodden bath structure.

[@dpjbdpjb]

@@sky-heritage-pictures_films you looked at the two tanks in the small room, correct? I know you were not able to get up next to them. But did you know they are engraved CO2 and not CO? Big difference. The Majdanek Museum claims the small room with a ceiling hole as a Zyklon gas chamber but it has no blue staining from the use of Zyklon B. But the second long room with the blue staining has no ceiling hole. Why is that?

[@sky-heritage-pictures_films]

@@dpjbdpjb I saw the gas tanks multiple times. Can you show me a picture with CO2 engraving? I can't see it on any of many detaild pictures I have. The rest of the answers come here www.majdanek.eu/en/pow/gas_chambers_at_majdanek/57#/ Thank you for asking.

[@williamsherman3047]

@@sky-heritage-pictures_films Do you mean Room A without the ceiling holes, or Room B1 without the blue stains?

[@Michael-it6gb]

Zyclon B leaves Blue-like stains on the wall. Look at the shower rooms. Not to mention it has windows 🤦

[@sky-heritage-pictures_films]

The shower room was never used to murder inmates in Majdanek. There were special concrete chambers build at the back of the wodden structure. The movie shows those clearly.

[@BrianFoster-ji9fp]

Birkenau was the only death camp that used Zyklon-B. The other 4 all used exhaust fumes from diesel engines.

[@user-go2st5fi9w]

​@@sky-heritage-pictures_films Show us the walls on this room. According to the liars they were gassed in the showers, not the room area in the back.

[@dpjbdpjb]

@@sky-heritage-pictures_films but the room with the Zyklon B stains does not have any ceiling holes

[@dpjbdpjb]

@@user-go2st5fi9w in the 1950s to 1960s that shower room was claimed to be a gas chamber, that claim went away long ago

[@veselinadinkova5921]

Look at 3:15 - 3:30. There is a female figure on the roof. She looks like a queen or antic goddess. As if some talented artist had drawned it.

[@sky-heritage-pictures_films]

Those are navy blue stains left after usage of Zyclone - B gas.

[@dpjbdpjb]

@@sky-heritage-pictures_films tis true, but the doors to this room opened inward, so it was a gas chamber for lice