In the Nuremberg Trials (IMT, NCA and NMT) steam chambers was introduced as an accusation to the Nazi defendants. Its origin was the Polish government in exile’s document 3311-PS. This document was submitted as evidence to the IMT II, IMT XXXII, NCA I, NCA IIIII and NMT IIII trials.
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Excerpt from 3311-PS
The Jews had simply ceased to exist. Special camps were established for this purpose where the destruction of human lives was carried on by mechanized means. The best known of these death camps are those of Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor in the Lublin district. In these camps the Jews were put to death in their thousands by hitherto unknown, new methods, gas and steam chambers as well as electric current employed on a large scale. The victims were recruited chiefly from the General Government, and particularly from the following districts: Warsaw, Radom, Lublin, Kraków and Lwow, but Jews from outside the General Government were also sent there, particularly from the Bialystok district where the Ghettos were maintained for a long time and where in the summer months of 1943 about 10000 Jews were rounded up and transported to Treblinka for extermination.
Abbreviations
IMT = Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal
NCA = Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression
NMT = Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals