A gas van or gas wagon (Russian: душегубка, romanized: dushegubka, lit. 'soul killer'; Serbian: душегупка/dušegupka; German: Gaswagen) was a truck re-equipped as a mobile gas chamber.

The gas-van is a special product of the Third Reich, it is a van with a gas-tight cabin/container-box/superstructure mounted on its chassis/understructure used to kill people by the motor …

Gas vans were regular cargo trucks specially equipped with an air-tight metal cargo compartment. The exhaust system was designed so exhaust gases could be re-directed into the sealed …

Cover Illustrations: Top: truck equipped with a producer-gas genera-tor (see page 106). Left: moving truck found in Poland after the war, for decades falsely claimed to have been a “gas …

Aug 28, 2015 · Gas vans were first used in 1940, when Polish mentally ill children were locked in a sealed van and killed by carbon monoxide. Prior to gassing, the victims were ordered to …

Als Gaswagen bezeichnet die Nachkriegsforschung speziell gebaute Lastkraftwagen, mit denen das NS-Regime Ermordungen durch Gas vornahm. Die SS gebrauchte damals aus …

A gas van is a large-capacity truck or van allegedly used to murder passengers in the enclosed rear cargo hold using engine-exhaust gas.

Gas vans were used on a large scale by the Einsatzgruppen in Byelorussia and the Ukraine. Here thousands of persons, mainly Jews, were killed by the use of these wagons. For example, …

There were many eyewitnesses to the design, construction, and use of the gas vans. These eyewitnesses included the drivers of the gas vans, the heads of the Einsatzgruppen units that …

Sep 17, 2016 · The operation and situation report of Einsatzgruppe B of 1 March 1942 explicitly mentions four "Gaswagen" (gas vans) in the group's motor pool. The report, which was …