History glossary
Gas chambers
rooms or sealed spaces used by Nazi Germany and its collaborators for mass murder during the Holocaust.
- Category
- Genocide method
- Region
- German-occupied Europe
- Date range
- 1941-1945
What it means
Gas chambers were rooms or sealed spaces used in Nazi killing centers and some other sites to murder people with poison gas. They became one of the central mechanisms of industrialized mass murder during the Holocaust.
Related terms
Stories using this term
The Holocaust
From legal discrimination to genocide, the Holocaust traces twelve years of escalating persecution that killed six million Jews and millions of others across Nazi-occupied Europe.
The Second World War
From fragile peace to global war, WWII reshaped the world through conflict, genocide, and new power orders.
