‘Help me now,’ he said, arming himself with some sort of a long iron harpoon, with a hook at the end.
He threw one over to me and told me to copy his movements.
‘The Germans are very careful about labor productivity, they quickly intervene if they notice that you work less, that you don’t contribute to the common effort enough. All right, now bring the bodies closer to the furnace entrance.’
He pulled out some sort of giant grill, made of cast iron, and started to arrange the bodies on it, squeezing in as many as possible.
‘They need to burn evenly,’ he added, professionally. ‘We’ve all made mistakes at the beginning and we ended up with unburnt limbs, untouched heads attached to a calcined skeleton etc. But, with time, we learnt from our mistakes and perfected our skills.’
We managed
