Zyklon B

Last month I wrote back to back posts about cyanide poisoning.  Of interest today is the death of a lottery winner in Chicago.  But the use of cyanide to kill dates back many centuries.  The most infamous use of cyanide was Zyklon B, the gas used by the Nazis to exterminate millions during World War II.   Some claim the holocaust never happened.   (Poland's population went from 10 million to 4 million during the war.  I guess it must have been some bad years for the flu!)  Thankfully there are many fighting to remind all of us of the horrors of the Holocaust.  The Nizkor Project is dedicated to the 12 million Jews that died in the holocaust.  (Nizkor is a Hebrew word which means, "We will remember".  

When you have the time please read this long, factual, horrifying and informative entry.  It contains very detailed information on how cyanide works.