Mobile gas van are a lesser known aspect of the Holocaust. In their article about gas vans Holocaust Denial on Trial, or HDoT repeats the claim that people were locked in the back of a truck and poisoned with carbon monoxide or suffocated due to lack of oxygen.
It’s interesting to note that what kind of engine was used is missing from this description. Perhaps it is because they were diesel and unlike the exhaust from regular gas, diesel gas is less toxic. The following is from HDoT’s own site, “The diesel combustion process is more efficient that the gasoline combustion process. When the diesel engine is properly tuned, it produces less toxic exhaust and gets better gas mileage than a gasoline engine. Gasoline engine exhaust contains between 7 percent and 12 percent carbon monoxide, which is deadly to human beings. “
What’s even more interesting is that HDoT references the book The Gas Vans—A Critical Investigation, by Santiago Alvarez. They reference this revisionist book not to refute its content, rather to bolster their claim. Since Alvarez’s book is good enough for HDoT to take their information from they shouldn’t mind me using it to show the impossibility of their own claims.
From Alvarez’s book, the same one that HDoT cited, we are shown why the engines in the alleged death vans would have been diesel. Alvarez also points out that, somehow, a gas van was never captured by the Soviets, nor were any traces of one found:
The following is a picture of a van that HDoT displays on their article. It is not a picture of a gas van, just a regular van.
Now let’s examine two major problems with the gas van story. First, the issue of pumping exhaust into an air tight compartment and then we will get back to the diesel exhaust toxicity issue.
If you’ll recall, HDoT claimed that the compartments were airtight:
From Alvarez’s book we can see the problems with pumping exhaust into an airtight/hermetically sealed box. One of two things would happen. The gassing compartment would burst from internal pressure, or the engine would stall because it would no longer be able to expel its exhaust into the pressurized compartment.
You may be thinking that maybe the engine didn’t run long enough during the gassings to produce either one of those outcomes. This is where the toxicity of diesel exhaust comes into play.
To illustrate the ineffectualness of killing with diesel exhaust Alvarez brings up a British study in which it took over three hours to kill various small animals (RIP little guys).
When confronting Holocaust claims you must remember it’s not about If it could have happened, but DID it happen the way they say it happened. Does it make sense that the Germans would waste so much time and fuel during a war to murder Jews in such an inefficient way? Now it should be apparent why the fabled gas vans have been kept out of the limelight.
Doesn’t HDoT try to combat the claim of diesel exhaust not be toxic enough by claiming the Nazis tuned the engines to produce more corbon monoxide and then give an example of where this has been done before?
I have not run across that. This article, https://www.hdot.org/debunking-denial/ds6-engines-used/, states the type of engines they claimed were used. This article, https://www.hdot.org/debunking-denial/ds5-producer-gas-engines/, talks about producer engines but says they were never used.
I will be doing more articles on this topic in the future. Especially since the first article I mentioned has this blatant lie,” Holocaust scholars have been transparent about new sources and new perspectives.”.
Somebody, I don’t remember who, brought up wood gas vehicles on a recent TRS show, I remember which one. So being that kind of nerd I looked them up. Here’s a video of WWII German wood gas vehicles. They look a lot like that photo you posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPzgCYpon48
There were gas vans in WW2. The British had them. They were used to train civilians in how to wear and test their gas masks. Everyone in WW2 was terrified of a gas attacks from bombers (despite it not really being practical), because poison gas was used in the battlefields in WW1.
So if the British were the “good guys” and their gas vans were used to save lives, therefore any gas vans the Germans had must be portrayed as the opposite for propaganda purposes.
I made videos about this on my bitchute. Everyone was preparing for has attacks, which is why so many wooden doors were found that has seals in the gaps in the camps, they were meant to protect people from gas attacks.
Thanks for sharing!