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File:Opel logo 2009 .png Nominated for Deletion

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Successor to this truck?

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Dear wikipedians, it's unclear to me the validity of the information in the section Successor for this article. Hence tagged as requiring an inline citation. Can anyone please clarify this? Thanks & regards, DPdH (talk) 13:24, 15 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"...the Opel Blitz was used by Germans extensively in The Holocaust as a modified carbon monoxide gas van so that they didn't have to go through the discomfort of seeing the people they were murdering..."?

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No, I'm afraid that's wrong. First removal trailers were used, only the gas bottles filled with CO were transported by the truck, later Diamond T built moving vans, using CO of the the vehicles' exhaust fumes, and then, after first "successes" by doing so, really large (at least in Europe by that time) 5 tons trucks of the former Austrian, from 1938 till 1945 German, truck manufacturer Oesterreichische Saurerwerke ...

Regards, Étienne d'A.--- Le seul et l'unique toubib (talk) 19:19, 22 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]