32. Hoess said in his confession that his men would smoke cigarettes as
they pulled the dead Jews out of the gas chambers ten minutes after gassing.
Isn't Zyklon-B explosive?

Ernst Zündel

replies to Q/A # 32:

Höss had
no scientific background. We have already established that he gave his torturers
the testimony they obviously needed to hear so they could weave a pattern of
genocide they required as a basis to demonize the Hitler regime, hang Germany's
wartime leadership, and lay the groundwork for the massive and unconsciounable
reparations racket, the "guilt payments" first induced by this propaganda, then
extracted from the postwar German generations. See Nahum Goldmans "The Jewish
Paradox" and Tom Segev's book "The Seventh Million" on how the Reparation Scheme
was pulled off.

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To answer the question, here is the scientific answer as of today:

HCN is explosive in a range between 6 and 41 vol.-%. Since the
concentration normally used for disinfestation as well as - according to
eyewitness accounts - allegedly used for mass killings never exceded 2 vol.-%, a
danger of explosion exists only in the neighbourhood of the carrier where the
concentration can rise occasionally up to 60 vol.-%.

Had an explosion
from a glowing cigarette resulted, the smoker would already have consumed an
extremely lethal amount of HCN due to the high, explosive HCN concentration. So
he would have died by two causes: poisoning and explosion.

October 1,
1996