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people dressed in stripped pajama
-like clothing walking around.
They were thin as skeletons,
weak and quiet, just walking
around aimlessly. The place was
surrounded by barbed wire
fences and overlooked by
towers where guards used to
stand. The enclosure was very
large and for the main part filled
with red wooden barracks.
Across the street were SS barracks
and factories. As I entered, my
attention was attracted to a
pillory in which inmates were
locked and beaten by SS men
with clubbs and a tin whip.
There were other things the

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Nazis had constructed to torture
people in the courtyard too.
The next place I visited
was the oven room. Entering
the basement, I saw the
room where as many as 80
people at one time were hung
by their hands from the pegs high
on the wall and beaten to
death with big wooden clubs.
When they were dead or
almost so, they were taken
down and loaded on an
elevator, then hoisted up to
the ground floor where they were
shoved into ovens and
cremates - dead or alive. There