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The Jews had to walk about 1 km from the train to the gas cambers. They had to remove their clothes & then put their clothes, shoes etc in their benches or pegs. the changing rooms made to look like a normal room. they were given soaps to look like they were really going to take a shower. Zyklon B was dropped down a flume into a locked room. The body heat made the gas work faster & it suffocated the victims. They used jewish prisoners (Sonderkommando) to clear the dead bodies. Auschwitz were able to murder 10,000 people every 10 minutes in 5 gas chambers. They burnt majority of bodies in large crematorium. Everything were recycled and was sent back for "deserving" Germans eg:- glasses, shoes, money, hair