Friday, March 19, 2010

«The child indicated, laughing, a recent corpse to me»

«In the vast Anglo-Saxon world there is a thing that impresses more than the end of the war in itself: that of the German concentration camps». The one that this way was expressing himself was Carlos Sentis, a special correspondent of ABC that, in 1945, when the Second World War was living through his last episodes, turned into one of the first journalists of the world in visiting the Dachau concentration camp … when there were still packed, there, thousands of moribund Polish prisoners.

The extermination field, in the outskirts of Munich, was liberated by the 20th Armored Division and the 45th Division of Infantry of the 7th Army, on April 29, 1945 and the ABC reportage was published on May 15, less than one month later, when they were still remaining there 32.000 arrested, the majority Poles, «almost all with streaky presidarios suit, peeled, with identical immense eyes at the bottom of his orbit», was telling the ABC envoy.

«The same way as we advance, it seems that we are going to enter an Exhibition or Out of Samples. It is already that partly. The samples that exist close to the entry I will see later that are the best, because, at least, they can walk without crawling and are not contagious like others that are in closed pavilions, of which, in spite of dying every day and after a week of the entry of the Americans, they cannot go out yet».

The Dachau field was inaugurated in March, 1933, a few weeks after Hitler's ascension to the power. Soon it was known like «the school of the genocide», since the first field of the Germany was a Nazi who practised the extermination, who served like model for the later fields, like the terrible Auschwitz, and who took charge of the formation of the CENTURIES.

For his barracks more than 200.000 prisoners went on to the length of 12 years that was in functioning. When You Feel it happened over there, in addition to Poles – «the most serious and private rooms» – they were heaped, in the worst conditions, «Yugoslavs, Russians, French, Czechs, Italians, Belgians, Dutches and Germans, between other nationalities.

«Although the Americans have done a meticulous cleanliness – tells the journalist – it smells quite frightfully. Garbages and all kinds of filth being burned in corners isolated from the field do not do any more that to rarefy even more the ambience».

«All that is not the important thing. Now we will enter the pavilion of the prisoners», mentioned to Sentis one of the American officials. In one of those pavilions, exclusively of Jews, «a boy with face of catch you he me smiles and, very entertaining, it indicates to me something that is in the soil, between two berths. I go there to look at it. It is a recent corpse. The child catch you he laughs with laughter on having seen my expression».

That corpse there left between the alive ones, «living bones covered with skin», was only one of 30.000 prisoners who were murdered there, according to the statistics, to that it would be necessary to add other thousands than there died victims of awful living conditions those who there were submitted.

«In the field, where all politicians are detained, there is typhus, dysentery and other illnesses, with dozens of moribund and hundreds of unburied corpses, of the 2.000 that the Americans found on having come», tells the editor, before describing as they placed all the journalists in line, before entering the facilities, to throw big quantities of dust disinfectants «D.D.T.», in addition to putting an injection of the same product.

«The madness!» It exclaimed that You feel when the American officials took him to crematory, where he could observe approximately 2.000 corpses that piled up in the gas cameras or shut up in 30 cars of the train, where they had been dying like flies, left, could not be incinerated.

«I only have seen one. That of Dachau, in the outskirts of Munich. Almost last come across of the American army. Visiting it it happened a little bit horrifyingly. Now, on the clean role where I write, I do not spend it much better», made sure the journalist.

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