[PAR] [TLE] Zyklon B [SEP] Zyklon B ( ; ] ; translated Cyclone B) was the trade name of a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s.  It consisted of hydrogen cyanide (prussic acid), as well as a cautionary eye irritant and one of several adsorbents such as diatomaceous earth.  The product is infamous for its use by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust to murder approximately one million people in gas chambers installed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and other extermination camps. [PAR] [TLE] Bruno Tesch [SEP] Bruno Emil Tesch (14 August 1890 – 16 May 1946) was a German chemist and entrepreneur.  Together with Gerhard Peters and Walter Heerdt, he invented the insecticide Zyklon B, infamous for having been used by Nazi Germany to exterminate approximately a million of the victims of the Holocaust.  He was the owner of Tesch & Stabenow (called "Testa"), a pest control company he co-founded in 1924 with Paul Stabenow in Hamburg, Germany, which was a major supplier of Zyklon B to the Nazi concentration camps.
[PAR] [TLE] Zyklon B [ SEP ] Zyklon B ( ; ] ; translated Cyclone B ) was the trade name of a cyanide - based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920s . It consisted of hydrogen cyanide ( prussic acid ) , as well as a cautionary eye irritant and one of several adsorbents such as diatomaceous earth . The product is infamous for its use by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust to murder approximately one million people in gas chambers installed at Auschwitz - Birkenau , Majdanek , and other extermination camps . [PAR] [TLE] Bruno Tesch [ SEP ] Bruno Emil Tesch ( 14 August 1890 – 16 May 1946 ) was a German chemist and entrepreneur . Together with Gerhard Peters and Walter Heerdt , he invented the insecticide Zyklon B , infamous for having been used by Nazi Germany to exterminate approximately a million of the victims of the Holocaust . He was the owner of Tesch & Stabenow ( called " Testa " ) , a pest control company he co - founded in 1924 with Paul Stabenow in Hamburg , Germany , which was a major supplier of Zyklon B to the Nazi concentration camps .
Bruno Tesch was part of the team that invented what cyanide-based pesticide?
Bruno Tesch was part of the team that invented what cyanide - based pesticide ?
Zyklon B
Zyklon B