Timeline Wednesday 3 September 1941

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Wednesday 3 September 1941

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Events on Wednesday 3 September 1941 1

1941 First Zyklon B gassing at Auschwitz SS tests poison gas on prisoners In the basement of Block 11 at Auschwitz, the SS killed around 600 Soviet prisoners of war and 250 sick prisoners with Zyklon B. The gas was later used for mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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