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Well, this is going to be a very hard model to explain. I don't want to tl;dr you guys in the deskrip, so I encourage you to read the included letter in the model file. In a nutshell, I had wanted to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference in a somewhat-tasteful manner that wouldn't mask the truth of the Holocaust in any way. Hence, I came up with this model. Really, this model is meant for educational and documentary purposes only, I in no way encourage or promote Nazism, National Socialism, Antisemitism, or hate with this model. Nonetheless, I'm sure there's gonna be a bunch of flak coming my way once the usual blogs have posted this.
I testbuilt this model while watching The Pianist. Goddamnit was that hard...
I will leave comments open for now, but if any hate comments pop up, I won't hesitate to disable them. Please direct all hatemail to either my dA notes, or to my gmail: nachthawk@gmail.com
Military: [link]
Popular Culture: [link]
Steampunk: [link]
Real Space: [link]
Ponies: [link]
Bloggers, you can find the preview images here and here. They're essentially the same; one just has an original image for comparison.
--
Well, this is going to be a very hard model to explain. I don't want to tl;dr you guys in the deskrip, so I encourage you to read the included letter in the model file. In a nutshell, I had wanted to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference in a somewhat-tasteful manner that wouldn't mask the truth of the Holocaust in any way. Hence, I came up with this model. Really, this model is meant for educational and documentary purposes only, I in no way encourage or promote Nazism, National Socialism, Antisemitism, or hate with this model. Nonetheless, I'm sure there's gonna be a bunch of flak coming my way once the usual blogs have posted this.
I testbuilt this model while watching The Pianist. Goddamnit was that hard...
I will leave comments open for now, but if any hate comments pop up, I won't hesitate to disable them. Please direct all hatemail to either my dA notes, or to my gmail: nachthawk@gmail.com
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Actually, what the photograph shows is a genuine gaswagen, a vehicle run on wood gas. Wood gas was a carbon monoxide rich gas produced by slow combustion of wet wood wood or charcoal, in a similar manner to the town gas piped to houses before natural gas came on stream. The cylinder you can see at the back is where the gas was produced.
It has never been alleged that this gas was used to murder people in vans or anywhere else. The alleged murder vans, none of which have ever been found, were almost all diesel-engined, which is an impossibility as diesel engine exhaust contains only minute amounts, well under 1%, of carbon monoxide, and is not toxic. Diesel engines are, and were in the 1940s, used underground in mines for this reason.
It has never been alleged that this gas was used to murder people in vans or anywhere else. The alleged murder vans, none of which have ever been found, were almost all diesel-engined, which is an impossibility as diesel engine exhaust contains only minute amounts, well under 1%, of carbon monoxide, and is not toxic. Diesel engines are, and were in the 1940s, used underground in mines for this reason.