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I assume you're asking about genocide as practiced in the European Theater of Operations by the Nazis. If so...

When the numbers of kiilled really started to escalate, it was found that the cost of bullets as a means of execution was excessive, and so newer, less cosztly methods were sought. One method invovled loading prisoners into a bus, in which the exhaust system had been rerouted into the passenger compartment, venting CO and other gases. Time for incapacitation varied, based on the size of the passenger compartment, engine size and RPMs, how well tuned the engine was, and various other factors. Assume perhaps 10 minutes, with a substantial variance, before death occurred in most if not all victims.

Zyklon was another approach. A neurotoxic cyanide based pesticide developed in Germany, it was an "area" toxin, designed to create a large kill zone.. The difference being that Zyklon was much more lethal than CO, and was also effective as a contact toxin. In the first experiments at Auschwitz, two bunkers (A and B) were used, containing respectively 800 and 1,200 victims. All told, death took about 20 minutes, depending on the victim's distance from the influx vent.

I cannot find, nor do I believe, that both toxins were ever used together.

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