The SS seal the doors and pump in carbon monoxide. Inefficient as it was, the prisoners often died of suffocation rather than the gas. The operations of asphyxiation lasted approximately thirty minutes. The entire operation for every group of victims (transport to the gas chamber, undressing, "medical visit", killing, transport of the cadavers to the crematory ovens) took about two to three hours.
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