"Maybe from then on we were safer in the camp! Mob violence was now occurring and we might encounter retreating troops or be attacked by S.S. squardrons on revenge raids, if we ventured out of the camp boundaries!
Weimer became the crossroads of the German retreat and that is why I think the planes were concentrating on this area. I also think that the two S.S. men, with the Volkswagon, that I had noticed the previous day, just before the bombing, were planting something near the fence to attract attention.
I don't know what! Possiblly, something to guide the planes to a particular target. Again, they were more likely S.O.S. then S.S. - surely they were infiltrators! I was so convinced of it that it made me confident that the camp would be saved.
I was thinker lesser and lesser of excaping now than before.! It wouldn't have been wise all things considered. On the other hand, I thought, never underestimate the strength of the S.S. or their capabilities!
On the night of the twentieth to the twenty first, I felt very disturbed again !
I knew something horrible was going on, my senses were acute all the time! I was sitting in the dining hall, talking to the nightwatchman, While we we talking inside, the old S.S., known as, "The Hangman", crept in - we knew him by this name due to his patrols within our barracks.
At this point, he warned us not to risk ourselves that night by going outside for any reason at all! It was the night of the horrible executions, in the cellar of the crematorium, of all the German families and plotters. Wholesome German families and the accomplices were actually being murdered there by the S.S. for treason against Hitler.
This proved to me that they still had enough power to do what they liked and mete out their vile retribution according to blood curdling tortures. So much the more reason for us to beware and to be ready at all times!
Wing Commandent Yeo Thomas and a contingent of a dozen British with twenty three or more French and Belgians, all S.A.S., Special Air Services. They had come in to Buchenwald about the same time as the German families. Most of the service men were from, The Channel Island", and fully bilingual. Recent radio broadcasts had made it clear that they were all considered to be terrorists and agents.
I remember when they had appeared, it was near to the end of August 1944, just after the bombing of Guzloff. They were brought in quickly on the advance after the landings and also when Antonio appeared on the scene.
After the war!!!The film made in honor of, Wing Commander Yeo Thomas, "Sentenced to Die", from the same book as the "White Rabbit" was shown only once and for a selected audience and then destroyed. A fifty thousand pound epic, Kenneth Moore was the actor who played, Wing Commander Yeo Thomas. Why was it abandoned? I believe because it was going to be shown around the Commonwealth then.
During the last days of Buchenwald, similar to Pompei, things followed each other in rapid succession - from the shooting of the S.A.S. inmates to the murdering of the rebellious few German plotters and their families.
To be continued ...
Weimer became the crossroads of the German retreat and that is why I think the planes were concentrating on this area. I also think that the two S.S. men, with the Volkswagon, that I had noticed the previous day, just before the bombing, were planting something near the fence to attract attention.
I don't know what! Possiblly, something to guide the planes to a particular target. Again, they were more likely S.O.S. then S.S. - surely they were infiltrators! I was so convinced of it that it made me confident that the camp would be saved.
I was thinker lesser and lesser of excaping now than before.! It wouldn't have been wise all things considered. On the other hand, I thought, never underestimate the strength of the S.S. or their capabilities!
On the night of the twentieth to the twenty first, I felt very disturbed again !
I knew something horrible was going on, my senses were acute all the time! I was sitting in the dining hall, talking to the nightwatchman, While we we talking inside, the old S.S., known as, "The Hangman", crept in - we knew him by this name due to his patrols within our barracks.
At this point, he warned us not to risk ourselves that night by going outside for any reason at all! It was the night of the horrible executions, in the cellar of the crematorium, of all the German families and plotters. Wholesome German families and the accomplices were actually being murdered there by the S.S. for treason against Hitler.
This proved to me that they still had enough power to do what they liked and mete out their vile retribution according to blood curdling tortures. So much the more reason for us to beware and to be ready at all times!
Wing Commandent Yeo Thomas and a contingent of a dozen British with twenty three or more French and Belgians, all S.A.S., Special Air Services. They had come in to Buchenwald about the same time as the German families. Most of the service men were from, The Channel Island", and fully bilingual. Recent radio broadcasts had made it clear that they were all considered to be terrorists and agents.
I remember when they had appeared, it was near to the end of August 1944, just after the bombing of Guzloff. They were brought in quickly on the advance after the landings and also when Antonio appeared on the scene.
After the war!!!The film made in honor of, Wing Commander Yeo Thomas, "Sentenced to Die", from the same book as the "White Rabbit" was shown only once and for a selected audience and then destroyed. A fifty thousand pound epic, Kenneth Moore was the actor who played, Wing Commander Yeo Thomas. Why was it abandoned? I believe because it was going to be shown around the Commonwealth then.
During the last days of Buchenwald, similar to Pompei, things followed each other in rapid succession - from the shooting of the S.A.S. inmates to the murdering of the rebellious few German plotters and their families.
To be continued ...
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