Munro's Gas Vans

[HansHill]

Excellent analysis!

Respect to both of you.

I second this, some excellent posts here, thanks to everyone for their insights. Saved for posterity!

[Stubble]

I'm hoping Scott also blesses this thread. Everything so far is EXCELLENT, but, the thread is still missing Scott's 'Special Treatment'.

[Callafangers]

Although I will add that in this lecture Munro talks about the British using forty gas vans to test gas masks, with a newspaper photo from 1939. This is not as relevant as German vans but still relevant to the question of homicidal purpose. If Munro was dishonest he would exclude stuff like this.

Yes, those may be the same ones he mentions in his book, I did touch on them earlier:

Munro dedicates part of his book to showing what he considers the roots or epistemology of 'gas vans' and includes just a few examples such as mobile stations used for testing of gas masks and a mobile gas chamber for euthanizing stray dogs. Strangely, Munro totally omits any discussion of mobile delousing chambers which were well-known and documented as having been deployed by Germany and much needed in eastern Europe at that time (see Alvarez's "The Gas Vans", 2023).

I do not think he's necessarily dishonest but I do think he's misguided and highly ambitious, which is an unfortunate combination.