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The "Gaswagen" part is a likely forgery. Two other possibilities are Holzgas motorfuel or fumigation vans, as in the examples below:

So you want wartime German language literature on German military vehicles where the term Gaswagen is shown?

What would they call the vehicles that I posted then?

You can see the make of the vehicles from the radiator grill logo, which is Saurer, and the one truck has it painted right on the side as well.

The fumigation van (German military nomenclature Sonderkraftfahrzeug 93) is an Einheits Diesel, usually a Henschel 33G1, but also made by other contractors in the early part of the war before being relaced by cheaper vehicle types.

See:

John Milsom, German Military Transport in WWII. (Hippocrene Books, NY: 1975), pp. 142-145.

U.S. War Department, TM-E 3-451; 15 March 1945. Handbook on German Military Forces (Louisiana Univ. Press: 1995), pp. 522-523.

No, I've just explained why and how Greuelpropaganda is made. You take something innocuous and make it sinister. I even have a documentary film on the Krasnodar trials and public executions in the Soviet Union that was produced by Brandeis University which shows the discredited Magirus-Deutz diesel van found near Chelmno that even the Hoaxsters who investigated it after the war said was not a murder-van. Yet one finds it everywhere, purported to be a Nazi Gas-Van.

The Gas-Van nonsense stems from Soviet propaganda to counter the Katyn accusations. I read the book that they published about it in 1944. I also quoted extensively from it in posts at the Axis History Forum. There were quite a few conveniently ignored whoppers in there too, such as a Survivor who claimed to have survived carbon monoxide poisoning in a Gas-Van by urinating on a rag. This worked in WWI when the gas was chlorine--the ammonia neutralizes the caustic gas--but it will not work with CO. It is a lie. There is also a story that the Germans smeared some black substance on the lips of people to poison them. Nice science fiction.

As far as German language publications I've been through all of the rare and hard to get copies of Sammlung der Vergiftungsfllen (now called Archives of Toxicology from the 1930s -1950s and already gained some insights. Greuelpropagandists don't normally read things like medical journals. One problem is that there isn't a lot of wartime academic literature published because the Germans were busy. But a lot of it was preserved by the Americans, who looted technical papers and journals looking for things that interested them. Unfortunately, things like fumigation and wood-gas were not rocket science and didn't arouse much interest. It will take a lot of pick-and-shovel work to find things but that is the way it is done.

Here's the Soviet book I mentioned:

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The People's Verdict: a full report of the proceedings at the Krasnodar and Kharkov German atrocity trials, by Ignatik Fedorovich Kladov; Ivan Fedorovich Kotomtsev, defendant.; Reinhard Retzlaff, defendant.; Wilhelm Langheld, defendant. (Hutchinson & Co., NY: 1944), English Book 124 p. plates, ports. 19 cm.

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