I Survived Hell On Earth by Leon Niescior

Author:Leon Niescior
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2015-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

LIQUIDATING THE SOVIET SOLDIERS

IN TOURING my stay at deadly Auschwitz, 70 Russian soldiers were added to our labor group to fill in for those murdered that day. We later learned that those 70 men were all that remained of shipment of I 2,000 brought to Auschwitz.

We learned also that they had been the target of a concentrated program to bring about the complete extermination of their entire number in the shortest possible time. This the camp staff had done with murderous efficiency and in less than six weeks.

As with all other groups, when the 12,000 Russians arrived, they went through the regular rituals of being robbed of all their civilian clothing and valuables, then run through some of the usual tortures and finally photographed. They missed, however, that part in which they were supposed to get uniforms and so were made to sleep naked on the cold floor, the chill winter winds whistling over them, their bodies huddled as closely together as they could get to take the greatest advantage possible of what little body warmth they had left.

That night the frost did the work for the dirty Gestapos. By morning several thousand had died, simply from exposure to the elements.

Those who had survived were assigned to a special detail which was to work in the farm fields harvesting the turnip crop. To protect them from the raw winds, the “generous” Gestapos provided them with a shirt and a pair of trousers of the usual prison garb. But that flimsy covering was no protection from the cold of that time of the year.

To those poor shivering Russian soldiers, a rifle shot might have been merciful treatment, but for the time being the Gestapos held their fire. They wouldn’t even soil their clubs and whips in abusing the brave troops but instead set a pack of dogs on them, the beasts attacking the defenseless men in a furious charge as they were let loose. Goaded on by the guards, the dogs tore and slashed at the prisoners until they became a whirling, frenzied mob, most of them running around wildly with jagged stumps of arms and legs waving.

Some of them tried to form a circle from which they could fend off the raging animals, but the guards let the sorry spectacle go on until there were too few men left for the number of dogs, then called the beasts off and put them back on leashes. A count of the prisoners left standing turned up the alarming news that fewer than 100 still were living of the original 12,000.

That small group marched back to camp, their pitifully small number a monument to the brutal efficiency of the Nazi butchers. It took little effort on the Nazi’s part to control the few who were allowed to survive that fiasco. The handful, including the one who related the incident to me, were then herded into our cell block which was by then a unit for the holding of prisoners condemned to death at the earliest opportunity, most of them on the brink of insanity.

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