Gas van

Burned-out Magirus-Deutz furniture mover van near Chełmno extermination camp. This van had not been modified, as explained by Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality (1946), but can help the reader visualize the process.

A gas van or gas wagon (Russian: душегубка, romanized: dushegubka, lit. 'soul killer'; Serbian: душегупка, romanized: dušegupka; German: Gaswagen) was a truck re-equipped as a mobile gas chamber. During World War II and the Holocaust, Nazi Germany developed and used gas vans on a large scale to kill inmates of asylums, Romani people, Jews, and prisoners in occupied Poland, Belarus, Serbia, the Soviet Union, and other regions of German-occupied Europe. There are several documented cases of gas vans used by Soviet NKVD during the Great Purge.

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