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¶ Sophia Litwinska, Polish: "The victims . . . were hauled to the crematorium where they were dumped out like potatoes. Inside the chamber there were cries, tears —people were shaking and striking each other. Then I noticed yellow fumes entering the room. . . . My name was called. I raised my arm, for my voice could not answer. . . . Then someone pulled me out of the chamber, I don't know who."
¶ Dr. Fritz Leo, German: "I have seen bodies with the livers removed for food. I have seen many bodies with the ears cut off, parts of cheeks, shoulders, arms, back and even parts of sexual organs cut off for food, either eaten raw or cooked later."
The Women. The defendants sat in their long dock, three rows deep, large identification numbers on their chests, listening impassively. The 26 men were grave and sodden. The 19 women kept an insolent composure. There was prune-faced Juana Borman (whose wolfhound liked to tear prisoners to pieces). There was wispy-haired Anna Hampel (who, according to one witness, had a crush on a French internee. "She tried to flirt with him, but he was reluctant, so she beat him all the time").
And there was 21-year-old Irma Grese (who had worked in concentration camps since she was 17, and liked it). In the dock, she sat rigidly between Herta Ehlert and Use Lothe (see cut). When the prosecution showed a motion picture of a German guard slowly pushing a huge pile of rotting corpses into a pit with a bulldozer, Irma Grese calmly fixed her hair and blew her nose.