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up to 50 strokes, except in the case of promiscuous 
flogging inflicted for sport, and each guard was only 
allowed to inflict ten lashes lest his strength gave out.
(Flogging was ordered for trifling offences, such as not 
jumping to attention quickly or not obeying an order.  A 
rabbi was flogged because he refused to sign his name on 
the Sabbath.  He was then threatened with a second
flogging. His spirit was too weak, and he signed).  Some
died stretched between the poles.  Those who survived were
kicked back into the shed.  In the day time the floggings
took place in public as a warning to the others.  Some
went mad. They were then chained up and a sack tied round
their heads to stifle their shouts.
 
 
       During the first night, men were not allowed to leave
the shed to relieve nature.  They used their hats. One
cannot enlarge on these filthy, details. Suffice it to
say that men used the water which the human body generates
to remove the excrements from their trousers, which they 
had been unable to retain. The guards had sport with all
these disgusting details.  I cannot spare you one other
horror which shows the sadistic nature of some of the S.S.
they forced men to urinate into each others' mouths to    
give them sport.                                                                     
 
 
 One prisoner who had false teeth and suffered from                             
pyorrhoea applied for an extra glass of water a day to clean                                                                 '    '      '                                                       t
his teeth and rinse his mouth.  The lack of water and his                                        ~,~
thirst were so great that he drank this water after using it.
 
 
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