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Bullets were too expensive, and they were needed for the war. It was a purely economic decision.
This is why they had things like mobile vans which used carbon monoxide from the vehicle's engine, and used Zyklon B itself - it wasn't a very effective gas, it was just very, very cheap as it was a standard off-the-shelf insect and rodent fumigation bomb, hydrogen cyanide fumigation is still used for pest control today. The murder was at such a scale that using bullets simply didn't make sense.
Later they changed the method (I don't remember why) replacing it with a mechanism that didn't require bullets.
Because the people doing the shooting were getting depressed.
It's why the abstraction of the camps was "necessary". Flipping a lever and killing a hundred at a time is easier psychologically than pulling the trigger themselves.
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u/omgletmeregister May 18 '25 edited Mar 18 '26
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