"What the hell is this place? Two big chimneys??? Are the Germans doing thermal power generation here? This place deserves to be built as a thermal power plant???"
Iushkin didn't know what the building with two large chimneys in front of him was for, but Malashenko could still remember it with the help of his future memory.
Camp No. 3 is not as big as Camp No. 1 and No. 2. The people who stay here are mainly engaged in some labor work and produce various light industrial products. The "extermination camp" where large-scale massacres are concentrated is also in Camp No. 2.
Not here.
However, Camp No. 3 still has all the "functional facilities" that it should have.
The "local characteristics" of this hellish place like Auschwitz, including gas chambers and crematoriums, and this hellish place like Camp 3 also have all of them, including a lot of people who have been deemed unable to continue working and have lost their use value.
, will be thrown into the gas chamber and forced to end their lives, and the death process will be observed and recorded, and various data parameters will be recorded, which can be regarded as squeezing out the last remaining use value.
The next step will naturally be to transport it to the crematorium and burn it, completely destroying the evidence that the persecuted person once lived in this world, leaving no trace.
Therefore, the two large chimneys that surprised Iushkin were not actually "thermal power plants" at all, but were used to burn corpses and spray out corpse smoke and corpse oil.
Malashenko, who was fully aware of this, did not say anything, but just motioned for Iushkin to follow his footsteps and just go forward.
"Hello, sir!"
"Comrade Commander."
"Hello, Comrade Commander!"
As soon as Malashenko led the people through the door, he saw a group of Red Army soldiers who were dealing with matters here and were handling a pile of corpses lying on the ground.
What’s strange is how disorganized these corpses are. Some of them are wearing prison uniforms and some are wearing SS uniforms, but without exception, they are all dead bodies. They are piled up on the ground like some kind of apocalyptic scene.
, at least there must be hundreds of them.
The soldiers greeted the comrades who came to inspect the place and stopped what they were doing. Malashenko, who was quite curious about this, looked at the pile of corpses and asked questions.
"What's going on? Why are the corpses of prisoners and SS soldiers piled up together? Who killed them?"
The person responsible for leading the team to take care of the affairs here was a lieutenant platoon leader. When he saw Malashenko asking questions, he took the initiative to stand up and answer the comrade of the division commander.
"Comrade Commander, the bodies of these prisoners have been here since we arrived. They are piled up in a hill here, but they are not completely stiff yet. They must have died not long ago."
"As for the corpses of these SS soldiers, they were either those who not only refused to surrender, but dared to shoot at us and were directly shot to death. Or those who refused to surrender and turned their backs to us were beaten to death while trying to escape. Those who are still alive
The SS bastards have been captured and taken away, only a dozen or so in number."
"I and the soldiers were examining these corpses to see if we could find any valuable information or things inside. In order to facilitate processing, we dragged the SS corpses and piled them together. After the examination, they were directly thrown to death.
In the pile. It just so happens that there is a corpse cremator in this place. I think it will be convenient to burn them together and save the need to dig a hole to bury them."
Comrade platoon leader's answer was clear and matter-of-fact. Malashenko, who looked at the pile of corpses as high as a hill in front of him, nodded to show his approval.
But even so, Malashenko still has a question in his mind that has not yet been answered: Why were the prisoner corpses that accounted for the vast majority of the corpses in the pile were killed?
Was it an organized massacre that was planned and prepared?
It is true that this possibility cannot be ruled out, but what Malashenko is thinking about is another possibility: for some reasons or some emergencies, the Germans suddenly decided to kill people and silence them.
This is not a groundless conjecture, but a guess made by Malashenko based on some actual situations that can withstand scrutiny.
A sudden large-scale massacre would inevitably require the urgent deployment of a large number of additional manpower. Malashenko always felt that this was likely to be inseparable from the fact that the number of SS troops in the concentration camp was so large that it was obviously abnormal.
And judging from the pile of corpses in front of them, it didn't look like a massacre that was organized, planned, and scheduled in advance.
Otherwise, who would have put so many piles of corpses here before there was a fire in the stove and in the cold conditions, so many that they were piled up into a hill.
It's not like we are engaging in some evil ritual. We have to build a mountain of corpses first and dance with the gods. It is obvious that there is a problem with the procedures for burning corpses to eliminate traces. There is an obvious disconnect between the two processes from killing to burning corpses. This is very much like a temporary ritual.
This is reflected in the situation where people intend to commit massacre, but due to lack of preparation, they are in a hurry and the process is out of order.
If it was really a spur-of-the-moment decision to commit mass murder, then it would be easy to understand why there would be so many SS soldiers in the concentration camp.
Who can guarantee that there will not be a large-scale riot if a mass extermination of the whole battalion is suddenly carried out? Moreover, if so many people are suddenly killed, more SS bastards will be needed to do the job of executioners, right? In the blink of an eye,
Could it be that a large number of SS lackeys poured into the concentration camp, and happened to be beaten by Malashenko's leader's division when they broke in?
As for why the Germans suddenly carried out a massacre on the spur of the moment, this involves the issue of the SS bastards who wanted to destroy the evidence and run away quickly.
Before leaving, you must get rid of all the "witnesses" as much as possible. The dead are the best at keeping secrets and will never speak out, so heinous crimes can be better hidden. But the reality is that we haven't had time to "start work" yet.
, the leader suddenly knocked on the door and forcibly interrupted, and not a single Fascist lackey from top to bottom was able to escape.
Looking at the obviously unnatural pile of corpses and the cold crematorium without fire, Malashenko increasingly felt that the real situation was probably like this. As for whether it was true and the specific details, from those
All you need to do is pry something useful out of the captured SS scumbag's mouth. This can be left to do later.
Malashenko was looking at the mountains of corpses in front of him and thinking about something, but Iushkin on the side was interested in the extra-large crematorium.
The size of this crematorium is as large as seven or eight Stalin heavy tanks stacked next to each other. Iushkin has never seen such a large crematorium, and even the corpses were thrown in and burned.
The furnace door is enough for a normal adult man to walk in with his head held high and his chest held high without any restraint. You can get an idea of this amazing level just from the astonished expression on Iushkin's face.
"I...I think I have to go in and take a look. I brought my camera. Maybe I can take some evidence photos to keep."
As soon as he finished speaking, before Malashenko could answer another sentence, Iushkin took the camera bag hanging on his hip into his hand and already got into the furnace.