Gassing Room of Crematorium I

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A camp mortuary was used as the gassing room of CrematoriumI. Victims entered through the far door. Horizontal and verticaldiscolorizations are evidence of interior walls having once been inplace. To this day, traces of poison gas precipitate can be detected by analysis of concrete samples

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