gas van (Q152982)

vehicle equipped as a mobile gas chamber for the purpose of conducting mass murder

murder box
gassing apparatus
mobile gas chamber
death van
gas lorry

Language	Label	Description	Also known as
English	gas van	vehicle equipped as a mobile gas chamber for the purpose of conducting mass murder	murder box gassing apparatus mobile gas chamber death van gas lorry

Statements

instance of

weapon of mass destruction

1 reference

stated in

Nuremberg Trials Project

reference URL

https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/documents/1676-draft-of-letter-to-the-reich?q=wetzel#p.1

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1 reference

Nuremberg Trials Project

reference URL

https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/documents/604-letter-to-reich-minister?q=hilfrich#p.1

image

Destroyed Magirus-Deutz furniture transport van Kolno Poland 1945.jpg
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native label

Gaswagen (German)

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Sonderwagen (German)

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Sonderfahrzeug (German)

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Spezialwagen (German)

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S-Wagen (German)

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Entlausungswagen (German)

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nickname

murder box (English)

1 reference

stated in

Nuremberg Trials Project

reference URL

https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/documents/604-letter-to-reich-minister?q=hilfrich#p.1

quotation

Several times a week buses arrive in Hadamar with a considerable number of such victims. School children of the vicinity know this vehicle and say: There comes the murder-box again. (English)