Did the Nazis kill jews using steam chambers?

This is a repost of my answer from the original question. First of all what exactly is a "Steam chamber"? Steam is after all just very hot water in gas form. How could you kill someone with that? read more

In fact the claim for using "steam chambers" only comes up in a report from the exiled polish government during the Nürnberg trials, these reports came from eyewitnesses outside the camps (people who could have confused the gas chambers they saw, with "steam chambers"). read more

In October 2005, I had a chance to see the inside of the Sauna building at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There were no steam rooms inside the Sauna building. The building was called a Sauna because it had iron boxes in which the prisoners’ clothes were steamed to kill the lice that spreads typhus. read more

The Sonder Kommando (Jews prisoners given the task of cleaning the gas chambers), removed the dead bodies and took them to the third chamber. Herein the bodies were cut open to find any ingested gems and precious stones, teeth inspected for with gold filling and if so hammered out. read more