A Study of the Cyanide Compounds Content
Consequently, water elutes cyanide compounds in considerable
measure. The fact that they have survived so long in the
chamber ruins is probably due to the possible formation of
cyanide combinations in the walls of those chambers at the
time of their utilization from about mid-1943 to the last
weeks of 1944 (except for Crematorium IV, which was blown up
earlier). The significance of rainfall in the process of
elution of these combinations out of the ruin walls is
exemplified by Crematorium II in the Birkenau camp, where we
have found the highest (mean) eoncentrations of cyanide
compounds, because many fragments of the gas chamber were to
a great degree protected from precipitation.
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