Actually, what the hell, I have a little time to kill.
The alleged "gas chambers" weren't hermetically sealed. The alleged "gas" (Zyklon-B) would contaminate the whole camp. Also bodies would be infected for hours, and no Haz-Mat suits at the time.
Most of this crap comes from Fred Leuchter, the self-appointed execution expert. The Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel paid Leuchter about $35K to write a "scientific report" that "proved" the gas chambers of Auschwitz weren't real.
Leuchter, famously, didn't do a damn thing to learn how the Nazis actually operated their gas chamber, and presumed that everything that was different about them when compared to the US jail counterparts -- hermetic seals, enclosed wiring, etc. -- didn't merely reflect a difference in operation, but rather was taken as "proof" by Leuchter and his idiot followers (and yes, I mean the OP) that the Nazi gas chambers weren't gas chambers because they weren't just like the US ones.
Modern execution gas chambers were designed to kill a single person as quickly and mercifully as possible with mininum health and safety risk to those in the immediate area. That means quickly producing a high concentration of HCN, something that knocks out the person being killed in seconds. The Nazis didn't give a damn about "quick and merciful" and the gas chambers took much longer to work, because they used a much lower concentration of HCN. Like any poison, the health risk is closely related to the concentration. So the dose was fatal, but not instantly fatal, did not produce instant unconsciousness like the US gas chambers did, and was low enough not to create fatal conditions outside when the gas chambers were aired out -- not that the Nazis cared much, as they had delegated Jews ("Sonderkommando") to do the actual gassing and go in and retrieve the bodies later. The idea that Hazmat suits would be required is almost as laughable as the idea that the Nazis would have provided them had they been available.
In short, Leuchter and the denial morons do an apple-to-oranges comparison, and then pretend this proves anything except how little they actually know about the Holocaust.
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