Global headlines reflected the anger of death camp survivors and others after The Guardian published documents showing the state planned to return to the use of hydrogen cyanide, a gas associated with what the Nazis called Zyklon B.
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(c) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The St. Louis, carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees, waits in the port of Hamburg. The Cuban government denied the passengers entry. Hamburg, Germany, 1939
On 4 June 1939, the MS. St. Louis, a boat carrying over 900 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution, was refused access to disembark in Florida, United States.
The German transatlantic liner left Hamburg, Germany, on 13 May 1939, shortly after the Nazis’ annexation of Austria in March 1938, which had led to increased personal assaults against Jews during the spring and summer, followed by the Kristallnacht (“Night of Broken Glass”) pogrom in November, and the seizure of Jewish-owned property.
It could have begun with something as innocent as a stumble.
We donât know why Sarah Page, the teenage elevator operator in a four-story building in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, screamed.
Some say the elevator didnât stop level with the floors and Dick Rowland, a teenage shoeshiner, simply tripped and grabbed Pageâs arm to steady himself. Or perhaps it was something more nefarious â weâll never know.
What we do know is that is that a clerk for Renbergâs Department Store heard Pageâs scream, called the police, and the front-page headline the next morning in the Tulsa Tribune declared, in the language of the times, âNab Negro for Attacking Girl in Elevator.â
Arizona Prepares to Use Auschwitz Gas Zyklon B on Death Row Inmates
On 6/1/21 at 6:52 AM EDT
According to documents obtained by the U.K. newspaper
The Guardian, Arizona s Department of Corrections has spent more than $2,000 on ingredients to make hydrogen cyanide, the same gas used at the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
The heavily redacted documents, which the newspaper has made available online, show that Arizona spent $1,530 in December, 2020 on a solid brick of potassium cyanide. The state also bought sodium hydroxide pellets and sulfuric acid necessary to generate the gas.
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