CAPITOLUL X
IN THE COMMANDOR’S OFFICE
Richard Baer, Josef Mengele, Josef Kramer and Rudolf Höss, cca 1944
At 8 in the morning, with the precision of a Swiss clock, Obersturmbahnführer Rudolf Höss stepped into the camp commandment’s building. He was tired after the experiences he shared with Karl the night before, and there was also the ruckus sparked by the violent death of the two guards.
At dawn, he had presided over a short meeting in order to establish what needed to be done, what would be the immediate retaliation against the prisoners, what would they do with the ones responsible once caught. Fritzch, as he did on every such occasion, proposed that they should brick up alive some dozens of randomly selected prisoners, a proposition that the others instantly welcomed with exciteme
