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Text spoken in the film:
(...) and in the Warsaw ghetto, weren't you afraid of those round-ups ...? Of course ! We were scared of them, all the time.Germans used to come to the ghetto every day let us say at noon, I cannot remember precisely - they would walk through the entire ghetto. Some officers in the open cars, dressed with elegance as usual, and behind them the prisoners were transported in a truck - back and forth. The road from the prison to the Gestapo headquarters led through the crowded streets of the ghetto, there was so little space in the streets, you had to push your way among other people... They were hauling those prisoners along that street for the ..... interviews...? [hint of the interviewer: interrogations !] Oh yes, for the interrogations. Prisoners were transported in trucks to the Gestapo, which was situated in the other part the ghetto. Driving very slowly through the crowded streets, Germans - in a bright light of the day -- were amusing themselves in such a way that they were pulling up quickly behind the crowd and were beating passers-by with huge sticks from the rear. At the end of each stick, there was attached something very sharp and cutting, I do not know what it was, a knife or something like that ...Very often, such a single blow could cut the head of the person which was on their way down through into two halves . If someone did not jump away in time or did not manage to hide somewhere in the gate of some house or in the shop, he surely would die on the street. After their passage, the road that they left was usually full of corpses. They were very pleased with these actions, really looked as if they had great time. *text from youtube.com |