Red Christmas by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Simon Scarrow
Published: 2014-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

There was a subdued spirit throughout the camp that evening. Everyone had come to hear of the morning's events and a bitter feeling of hatred towards Claws was evident in every barrack building. In block twelve the workers had eaten in silence. Now the lights were out they lay sleeplessly on their hard wooden bunks. Joey had been unable to eat, the vision of Rudi sprawled out on the snow always in his mind's eye. Kramer had tried to comfort him earlier but Joey had brushed him away and warned Kramer not to come anywhere near him. Rudi was dead. Rudi was a carcass, even now being butchered in the overseers' kitchen - flesh hacked from bones as the once bright eyes looked on, dulled by death.

What was there to live for?.... What? Kramer had told him that the suffering of this world would be compensated for by happiness in the hereafter, that Rudi was with God now.

"But I want Rudi here!" He cried out. "Here...with me."

With a convulsive heave of his chest the grief broke loose and bitter tears pricked out of his eyes and soaked into the pillow. Those on the bunks around him stirred momentarily at the noise before their weary heads dropped back down and drifted off to sleep.

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