Survivors Testimonies of the Holocaust

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OCR: Ir the iast days of April 1945 with the war oniy days from over Soviet forces surrounded the Stutthof concentration camp. The camp German SS guards had LO eliminate the remaining prisoners After murdering thousands of them ir cold biood they loaded thousands more including Bert on "death barges" and towed them toward the center of Germany It is probable that the guards the mselves headed west in order to be captured by British troops who were usualiy iess vengeful and brutal than Soviet soidiers They may have taken prisoners with them ir order to have forced iaborers or hostages However, since the war was all but over, is more likely that they towed the prisoners out to sea for psychol oaical reasons After years of Nazi indoctrination and exposure institutionalized terror, the auards kept ...