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GERMAR <strong>RUDOLF</strong> · <strong>THE</strong> <strong>RUDOLF</strong> <strong>REPORT</strong>port like trains, ships, both inEurope and in America. 112 Forexample, Dr. G. Peters reportsin his work Blausäure zurSchädlingsbekämpfung (HydrogenCyanide for Pest Control)113 about the fumigationof ships with hydrogen cyanide,which happened in theUnited States as early as 1910,and about tunnel facilities, inwhich entire railway trains Fig. 13: A lice-ridden train enters arailway gassing tunnel in Budapest.could be driven into in order112to be disinfested (see Fig. 13). The use of Zyklon B in public buildings,barracks, prisoner of war camps, concentration camps was alsofeatured in the literature of that time. 114-117 Of course, there were severalother gaseous pest control agents in addition to Zyklon B. 118,119Zyklon B continued to play an important role even after the war, untilit was largely replaced by DDT and its successors. 120,121A large number of publications are available from both the wartimeand pre-war periods, to which reference is made. 113,114,117,122-126111 G. Peters, W. Ganter, “Zur Frage der Abtötung des Kornkäfers mit Blausäure”, Zeitschrift fürangewandte Entomologie, 21(4) (1935), pp. 547-559.112 G. Peters, “Eine moderne Eisenbahn-Entwesungsanlage”, Anzeiger für Schädlingskunde,14(8) (1938) pp. 98f.; cf. F.P. Berg, op. cit. (note. 131).113 Gerhard Peters, Blausäure zur Schädlingsbekämpfung, Ferdinand Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1933.114 Walter Dötzer, “Entkeimung, Entseuchung und Entwesung”, in J. Mrugowsky (ed.), Arbeitsanweisungenfür Klinik und Laboratorium des Hygiene-Instituts der Waffen-SS, 2nd ed., Urban& Schwarzenberg, Berlin and Vienna 1943.115 F.E. Haag, Lagerhygiene, Taschenbuch des Truppenarztes, vol. VI, F. Lehmanns Verlag,Munich 1943.116 F. Puntigam, “Die Durchgangslager der Arbeitseinsatzverwaltung als Einrichtungen derGesundheitsvorsorge”, Gesundheits-Ingenieur, 67(2) (1944), pp. 47-56.117 For a more recent treatment of the topic, see: F.P. Berg, op. cit. (note. 131).118 G. Peters, Die hochwirksamen Gase und Dämpfe in der Schädlingsbekämpfung, F. Enke Verlag,Stuttgart 1942.119 DEGESCH, Acht Vorträge aus dem Arbeitsgebiet der DEGESCH, 1942, p. 47; Document NI-9098 from the Nuremberg Trials, table of properties of the gaseous insecticide/pest controlproduct used by DEGESCH.120 H. Kruse, Leitfaden für die Ausbildung in der Desinfektion und Schädlingsbekämpfung, Muster-Schmidt,Göttingen 1948.121 H. Kliewe, Leitfaden der Entseuchung und Entwesung, F. Enke Verlag, Stuttgart 1951.122 F. Puntigam, H. Breymesser, E. Bernfus, Blausäuregaskammern zur Fleckfieberabwehr, Sonderveröffentlichungdes Reichsarbeitsblattes, Berlin 1943.62

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