The Gas Vans: A Critical Investigation - Holocaust Handbooks

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5. Conclusions
There can be no doubt that the Germans of the later 19 th and early
20 th century used to be a special breed. Just imagine all the things they
did: they invented the gasoline engine, the Diesel engine, the Wankel
engine, the jet engine, and the rocket engine; by the end of WWII they
had the first rockets, first jets, first helicopters, first stealth submarines,
first plans for building space shuttles and stealth bombers; by that time
they had also invented nerve gases, had discovered nuclear energy, developed
coal gasification, invented artificial rubber, the video telephone,
the amateur video camera, infrared-based night vision devices,
tape recording, TV, live TV, color TV, cable TV, microwave ovens, the
anti-baby pill, discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer,
built the first computer (Zuse, tube-based), and last but not least the
electron microscope.
What can one expect from such a people when they turn their energy
to murdering people en masse? Crude, hardly operable makeshift solutions?
Because this question is not rhetorical in nature, I hope that the reader
will permit me to delve into the matter a little bit deeper. The question
is, more accurately put, what options the Germans had and which
one they would have chosen to commit mass murder. This might sound
a little crazy, as it appears to be a contest in mass murder, but this
thought experiment is necessary to realize the nature and quality of the
claims made about the gas vans, among other things.
I am not the only one venturing into this field. In his study of the alleged
Auschwitz gas chambers, Germar Rudolf has discussed the various
options available to the Auschwitz camp authorities (Rudolf 2011,
pp. 226-229), while Fritz Berg has done something similar for the Aktion
Reinhard camps (in Rudolf 2003, pp. 459-462), and in his study
about Chemno, Carlo Mattogno has marveled over the question why
the Germans are said to have used CO, when they had at their disposal
numerous other agents which were much more potent (Mattogno 2011a,
toward the end of his chapter 2).