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4 am-Wake up
They were woken up before the sun was up and they had to get dressed in to their unifroms. Then they were sent off to breakfast. -
5 A.M. Breakfast
The breakfast you were servered was all outside. Usually they servered you weak tea or coffee. The bread they would give you was made out of sawdust and flour and had dead bugs in it. -
6 A.M. Moring Roll Call
Everybody was lined up in rows of 10 on a huge bare space in the center of camp called the Appellplatz. All priosoners were suppose to be there. Even the ones who died the moring or the night before. -
The Work
If your are lucky, you have recieved a good tolld, a shovel or a pickax.Otherwise, you'll have to work with your hands. This may mean death because you are not working as fast with your hands. -
Lunch Break
A signaling whistle again: the "lunch break" is now over. The work starts again, always at top speed. The afternooon seems harder because you are hungry and you are loosing strength. A pisoner faints and the gaurds beat him. If this poor man can't be raised he'll be illed and you'll have to bring his dead-weight body back to the camp for eveing roll call. -
Returning to the Camp
A last singaling whistle: your work team walks back to the camp, and the surivors are carrying the bodies of the prisoniers that died today. Maybe the gaurds will order this team to sing. Once arrived in the camp, the SS are controlling your team. It's a new opportunity for them to beat, to kill. -
Evening Roll Call
All the prisoners are lined up by rows of ten. The kapos are counting the prsoners and the dead. If a prisoner tried to escape, all the prisoners will stand at attention at their roll-call place until he is retreived. The evening roll call takes hours, sometimes 10 hours, before it is over. The evening roll call is also the moment chosen by the SS for the punishments and the hanging. Sometimes, after a hanging, all the prisoners have to march in front of the gallows to look at the hanged prisone -
The Dinner
The eveing roll call is over. You run in order to reviece your "dinner": a kind of "soup", just like the one you recieved at noon. If you spare some bread, you may eat it now, with the soup. Once again, the distribution of food is an opportunity for the kapos to the beat the prionsers. -
Move Off the Kommandos
You run into your work team. You'll leave the camp under the heavy guard of SS and kapos, always barking at you. You'll reach the yard by walking of course. Maybe you'll have to march off to the bear of the music played by the camp orchestrea. Or maybe the SS will order to your work team to sing during march. Just at the gate of the camp, there isa row of SS waiting for your work team. Beating, insults, barking again and again. -
The Evening
You return to your barrack. In no way you are allowed to leave the barrack during the night. The "blockfuerher" is waiting for you and your comrades. The blockfuerhers wear green triangles, which means “real criminals”. They have the right to decide who'll live and who'll die. Maybe he will let you rest until tomorrow morning. But, maybe he'll decide to have some "fun"--to order exercises like crawling, jumping, running until you faint. Eventually, you are allowed to lie down on your straw-mattr -
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