Did the gas chambers at Aushwitz really have wooden doors and windows?

by DestroyrKing

It seems odd that they would use wood doors instead of steel doors because steel doors couldn't be broken down, and would hold gas better. I would think the room would have to be air tight which wouldn't make sense if they had windows. I dont know if it is true or not, and I thought you guys could help. Thanks in advance!

commiespaceinvader

/u/Sergey_Romanov has a post on their very useful blog about just this subject here:

What doors were actually used in the gas chambers of Auschwitz? The same as for the delousing chambers, i.e. the gas-tight ones. Notably, the delousing chambers in Auschwitz used wooden doors made gas-tight by felt stripes. Here is one such wooden gas-tight door in the delousing gas chamber of Block 1 in the main camp

Sergey_Romanov

They didn't have windows (some of them had side openings with small gas-tight doors for introducing Zyklon B, and those were secured with metal grating against the victims).

In addition to the link to my article posted above I also answered this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/d9uxdu/comment/f1lrl2b