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malnutrition. there were
barracks after barracks filled
with people who were slowly
dying from that cause, whom it
was impossible to save. The
inmates were beaten down
broken spirited people. Till the
the time when the Nazis had to
leave there were 51,000 killed
in the camp and there was a high [huge?]
monument with that number on
it in the center of the courtyard,
which had been placed there
by the Nazis to commemorate their
murderous achievement.
I spoke to some Polish
boys of a group of boys my
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concentration camp at the
age of seventeen and were
there for five years. They told
me that the only thing that concern-
ed the Nazis was how to kill
the people fast enough. One of
the methods they used at first
was to inject benzine[?] or a
strond acid either into the
heart or veins with a large
hypodermic. This killed them
instantly but it was not efficient
for large numbers of people so
new methods were evolved.
They were herded into a large
barracks, 800 at a time, and
all the doors and windows