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• Oskar Groening is on trial for his role in deaths of 300,000 Hungarian Jews
• Zyklon-B gas used by the Nazis to kill most of 1.2 million Holocaust victims
• Court heard how pesticide causes extreme pain, violent seizures and kills anyone who inhales it from cardiac arrest 'within seconds'
• But low concentration in gas chambers meant victims were in pain for 'longer than half an hour' before dying

By Jay Akbar For Mailonline

Published: 10:15 EST, 27 May 2015 | Updated: 07:01 EST, 9 June 2015

The trial of a former SS guard has heard how the Nazis used a lethal pesticide to slowly and painfully kill over one million victims of the Holocaust.

Oskar Groening, now 93, a former accountant at Auschwitz, is on trial in Luneburg, Germany, for his involvement in the deaths of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at a Nazi camp in German-occupied Poland in 1944.

Today an expert delved into the horrendous properties of Zyklon-B gas, the pesticide used in the concentration camp death chambers.  Dr Sven Anders, 44, a coroner from the University Clinic of Hamburg-Eppendorf, told how Zyklon-B, which 'attacks the brain', causes extreme pain, violent seizures and kills anyone who inhales it from cardiac arrest 'within seconds'.  Dr Anders told how the gas was originally produced as a pesticide to cleanse large buildings like warehouses and barracks. 

Inhumane: The trial of a former SS guard Oskar Groening (pictured) has heard how the Nazis used a lethal pesticide to slowly and agonisingly kill over a million victims of the Holocaust

Cruel: An expert claimed that Zyklon-B gas used by the Nazis in concentration camps should kill within seconds of being inhaled but it sometimes took longer than half-an-hour for Holocaust victims to die

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Nazi: 93-year-old Groening (pictured on left in his SS uniform) is on trial in Luneburg, Germany for his involvement in the deaths of 300,000 Hungarian Jews in 1944

  

Groening, who arrived 30 minutes late to the hearing due to a traffic hold up, looked intently at him and twitched slightly as he said: 'Zyklon B is known as prussic acid. Only one in two people can smell the cyanide - but it has the smell of bitter almonds and marzipan.  'It is lighter than air and penetrates by inhalation into the smallest branches of the lungs. There it blocks cellular respiration.'

He went on: 'The brain and the heart are first attacked. It begins with a stinging feeling in the chest, then it can cause spasmodic pain - similar to epileptic seizures.  Death by cardiac-circulatory arrest occurs usually within seconds. Cyanide is one of the fastest-acting poisons.'

The Nazis produced the gas in huge quantities during the Second World War and it was used on its victims at Auschwitz who were led into huge gas chambers disguised as shower rooms. Gas-mask wearing SS guards would then shake the pesticide crystals and slip them into the chamber and waited for the people inside to die.

Dr Anders said it was unlikely that the poison worked at the same speed in all areas given the size of the gas chamber and the unfortunate people who were breathing lower concentrations would suffer much more.  He added: 'A lower intoxication leads to a blockage of blood in the lungs and thereby causes shortness of breath.'  'Commonly one speaks of water in the lungs, breathing will then always deeper and stronger, because the body craves after oxygen. The agony could last more than half an hour.' 

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Final moments: The Nazis used the horrific Zyklon-B gas to kill most of the 1.2 million victims of the Holocaust (pictured at Auschwitz)

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Death camp: The Nazis used the gas on its victims at Auschwitz (pictured) who were led into huge gas chambers disguised as shower rooms

He added: 'The gas is lighter than air... It ascends in space, width first under the ceiling. In closed rooms, you must specify height as a risk factor.' This meant that taller individuals died in agony first while smaller people and childre, could see the suffering taking place over their heads. The brain and the heart are first attacked. It begins with a stinging feeling in the chest, then it can cause spasmodic pain - similar to epileptic seizures... Death by cardiac-circulatory arrest occurs usually within seconds.

Dr Sven Anders, University Clinic of Hamburg-Eppendorf

Earlier in the proceedings Groening had described how he had heard the killing of prisoners in gas chambers - a crying that grew to a crescendo before falling off - adding: 'Then they were quieter again. An SS doctor went in with a gas mask. All were dead.'

Groening, who is known as the 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz', has admitted to being 'morally guilty' but denies legal responsibility because he claims he 'never hurt anyone' directly.

Others were told to leave their luggage inside the cattle wagons they had arrived and it would be brought back to them after they had showered. But it was collected up by people like Groening and sent back to his SS paymasters in Berlin to fuel the Reich war effort. His main job at Auschwitz was to gather the possessions of inmates and ship them back to Germany. 

Prosecutor Jens Lehmann described in detail in the indictment against Groening how the victims in the gas chamber were wedged so tightly together 'that they could only be separated by axe blows'.  

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A hearing scheduled for Wednesday was cancelled because of his fragile health which was the second time it has interrupted proceedings. The trial is due to start again next week.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3099309/The-brain-heart-attacked-begins-stinging-chest-epileptic-seizures-Trial-Auschwitz-bookkeeper-told-gas-chamber-pesticide-weak-holocaust-victims-longer-half-hour-die.html