Even to the Edge of Doom by William Schiff

Author:William Schiff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press

William leaves the garage one afternoon and enters the Hygiene Institute to sneak in a quick visit with Dr Meisel. He can’t find his protector in the deserted halls or laboratories and assumes the entire staff has been called up to the main camp. He hears an abrupt high-pitched scream.

Wild screaming, horrible, coming from an operating room a little further up the hallway. The door was cracked and I looked in. Two doctors were cutting on a Russian girl with a saw, taking off her forearm with no anaesthesia. They already had her hand off. It was on a tray.

The girl was tied to the table and struggled until she fainted. She may have been twelve years old and her blood was all over their smocks and the table. As soon as they sawed the forearm off they threw it on the floor and started to stitch the hand to the stump of her elbow. I went outside and threw up.

That afternoon I hacked meat off a side of beef and smuggled it back to the block as usual. I wish I could say I had no appetite but after five years of being treated worse than animals we stayed pretty focused on soup and bread, soup and bread. Survival was our obsession. It’s an awful, awful feeling.

In my bunk that night I remembered how I had thought my father was an ignorant person for worrying about the Germans. I always assumed that the smarter a civilisation is, the nobler it has to be. I finally realised that smart men can be the cruellest and most deceptive.

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