The gas van or gas wagon (German: Gaswagen; Russian: душегубка (dushegubka); Serbian: душегупка) was an extermination method devised by Nazi Germany to kill victims of the regime. It was also rumored that an analog of such a device was used by the Soviet Union on an experimental basis during the Great Purge.
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