CHAPTER V
THE FIRST NIGHT AT THE CAMP
The Sonderkommando team in action, right after the gassing of a group of people. The corpses were shaved (hair was exported for 25 pfennigs per kilogram), their gold teeth and dentures were pulled out, then they were burned in crematoria.
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The brightly colored clown grabbed my hand and signaled me to take a walk with him along a dirt path, which split the meadow in two, like an endless, undulating snake. He was trying to make eye contact and his red mouth, bordered by long, pointed teeth, opened without being able to utter a word. It was obvious that the muteness that had stricken him pained him terribly, so much that at some point he shoved both his hands in his mouth and started pulling at the edges hard, until it widened beyond
