The Use of Zyklon-B to Fumigate Cargo Ships

[Smaland]

The U.S. Public Health Service building in Washington, D.C., completed circa 1933. In 1931, J.R. Ridlon and C.L. Williams of the USPHS wrote a series of memos describing the use of Zyklon-B as a fumigant.

Leaving the cumbersome, laborious, and time-consuming sulphur fumigation, we have passed through the method of generating HCN, with its still cumbersome apparatus and paraphernalia, through the period of liquid HCN, complicated by the difficulty of transporting so dangerous a material, and have arrived at the exceedingly simple procedure of knocking a hole in a can of Zyklon, pouring the contents down the hold, and throwing the can overboard.

"Excerpts from the U.S. Public Health Reports (1931)"

[Fortis in Arduis]

Well, it was much better than using dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), which is injurious to human and animal health, yet was used extensively by the American military.



Imagine coming back from Vietnam with pickled cojones.

[BeerBaron]

I smell a holocaust debate coming from this.

[Magister Eckhart]

I smell a holocaust debate coming from this.

There's no need for debate, the evidence is fairly plain that Zyklon-B was developed as a pesticide.

[Anusiya]

There's no need for debate, the evidence is fairly plain that Zyklon-B was developed as a pesticide.

Zyklon B was initially developed as a chemical warfare weapon and later on, some of its derivatives were used as pesticides.

[Smaland]

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