Oliver Stone: Holocaust Blown Way Out of Proportion by Jewish Dominated Media

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Got more on that? They understood oxygen then.

They did, but they also understood very well that the primary danger in those shafts (apart from collapsing support beams and the like) was that you got in so far from the exit point that there was too little oxygen. Thus something as simple as a torch could lead to lethal amounts of carbon monoxide.

Anyway a specific, targeted attack with sulphur for you here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dura-Europos Now, I have inferred that this would be the “usual” approach from the fact that sulphur and sulphur compounds are readily available (heck, even setting fire to rotting animals would do the trick: perhaps not lethal but quite nasty all the same). Similarly to that among the things you could do would be to burn various plants (e.g. taxus) to get other unhealthy fumes.

In January 2009, researchers claimed they had found evidence that the Persian Empire used poisonous gases on Dura against the Roman defenders during the siege. Excavations at Dura have discovered the remains of 20 Roman soldiers at the base of the city walls. An archaeologist at the University of Leicester suggested that bitumen and sulphur crystals were ignited to create poisonous gas, which was then funnelled through the tunnel with the use of underground chimneys and bellows.[16] The Roman soldiers had been constructing a countermine, and Sassanian forces are believed to have released the gas when their mine was breached by the Roman countermine. A lone Sassanian soldier was also discovered among the bodies and is believed to be the individual responsible for releasing the gas before the fumes overcame him as well.