# Questions about Hitler and Nazi Germany's attempted extermination of Europe's Jews **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 18, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-hitler-and-nazi-germanys-attempted-extermination-of-europes-jews/669168 "2013-09-18T19:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 543
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-hitler-and-nazi-germanys-attempted-extermination-of-europes-jews/669168/543 "2013-09-23T23:28:06Z")
> [@Gack](#): > > I am afraid of gas, but did a little experiment today. Put some gas in a small plastic cup and tossed a burning piece of paper into it. It burned pretty impressively but didn’t explode or anything. As the plastic melted it became clear that the gas would spread onto a wooden fixture in the yard that I didn’t want to burn, so I had to quickly fetch the hose, and when I hosed it it was a little like a fireworks display with drops of flaming gas exploding forth, a couple of feet, it was impressive with lots of patches of flame on the yard, but really no biggie. I hosed it down and the wood didn’t catch on fire. If experimentation like this ends up burning down his house, revised history will show that it was the jews that caused the fire. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-hitler-and-nazi-germanys-attempted-extermination-of-europes-jews/669168)._