... acid fumes were used following successful tests at Belzec. It is estimated that 1.5 million inmates were gassed at Majdanek. After Russian troops discovered the camp on July 23, 1944, Konstatin Simonov, a Soviet writer, wrote a full account of the death camp for Pravda. In a special issue the London Illustrated News published photographs of the gas chambers and ovens at Majdanek.&... |