Tauber on the gas chamber door;Stubble wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2026 8:19 pm I don't have to bend the support band Nessie. I'd have to kick the locks open or kick the door off the hinge pins by fucking sheering them. By kicking the door. With my bare feet.
For the record, I could definitely bend that banding, but, I would have to remove it from the wood. It looks like the band's were secured with lags. That would take a tool. Kicking the door off the hinge pins by sheering them or kicking the 'locks' to failure on the other hand would be almost effortless.
I guess I'm just going to have to mock up a Van Pelt style door and show you.
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=82890
"It was a wooden door, made of two layers of short pieces of wood arranged like parquet. Between these layers there was a single sheet of material sealing the edges of the door and the rabbets of the frame were also fitted with sealing strips of felt. At about head height for an average man this door had a round glass peephole. On the other side of the door, i.e. on the gas chamber side, this opening was protected by a hemispherical grid. This grid was fitted because the people in the gas chamber, feeling they were going to die, used to break the glass of the peep-hole. But the grid still did not provide sufficient protection and similar incidents recurred. The opening was blocked with a piece of metal or wood. The people going to be gassed and those in the gas chamber damaged the electrical installations, tearing the cables out and damaging the ventilation equipment. The door was closed hermetically from the corridor side by means of iron bars which were screwed tight."
So, this type of door, reinforced with iron bars. You have to force off the iron bars, that are attached each side into the door frame.

You have to be naked and you are dying from being gassed to complete the comparison.