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Zyklon B was originally developed as a cyanide-based insecticide in the 1920s by Dr. Fritz Haber, a world-renowned chemist and recipient of the 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of a method for the synthesis of ammonia (see Haber Process). Haber fled Germany in 1933 due to his Jewish ancestry (he died of heart failure one year later).
By early 1942, Zyklon B had been selected by the Nazi Regime as the preferred extermination tool at both the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek extermination camps during the Holocaust. The chemical claimed the lives of roughly 1.2 million people at these camps.