Why did the Nazis use Zyklon B in the gas chambers ? Did they shy away ?

Question: Why did the Nazis use Zyklon B in the gas chambers !? Did they shy away !?

from asking the german chemical industry for an efficient poison gas (zyklon b took up to 30 min to kill) preferring to order "harmless" pesticides !?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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It was much more efficient than the methods they had been using!. They started out shooting victims, but after the invasion of Russia there were just so many who had to be shot that it got demoralizing for the Einsatzgrupen SS troopers!. Himmler was very solicitous of the bad effects on his boys and looked for more efficient methods!. They started hooking up hoses from exhaust pipes of vehicles and running the motor to pump carbon monoxide into the rooms where victims were confined, but this was also time consuming and wasteful of scarce gasoline!.

So the introduction of fixed facilities using the available agents (mainly Zyklon B) enabled an assembly line approach, and gave industrial efficiency on the scale they wished to operate!. This was a vast improvement and gave a much greater capacity to their efforts!.

German industry had much experience with poison gases, which the German military had introduced on the WW One battlefields, first releasing it from canisters when the winds were favorable and later firing it into enemy positions in shells with a low bursting charge!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Those Nazis were anything but shy!. I guess they were satisfied with Zyclon B but who knows!.
If they were working on something more deadly, they would have kept it secret!.Www@QuestionHome@Com