Berlin Trip (Day 2) - part 3

19 March 2011
Hello...welcome back to history class...haha
Let take a look at the torture equipment...
This a torturous instrument. Very strong willed prisoners are placed hanging on these poles with their arms tied round the sharp pointed rod sticking out of the wooden pole. These prisoners are slowly lowered down letting them experiencing the pain of breaking their shoulder joints. This is often the method use to interrogate the prisoners to spell out the names of other organisation that are against the Nazi rule! These prisoners are left with their entire arm broken off from the shoulders....We are now in the section of the camp where torturous method are being taken place. The above r the typical of kinds of punish equipment....
A typical prisoner uniform with a colour code to indicate their very existence in the camp...yellow represents tat u r jews..etc..one may hav more than one color code on them...these color code may sometimes means u get different treatment...

Let us now head out to the execution centre...
This is the place where prisoners are executed...all of them will have their back facing the side where u can see thr r people walking...they will then be shot to death...one by one by the SS guard..
A closer view of the execution ground...the tour said alot here..but i guess i forget most of it and i wasn't paying full attention becoz the weather is sooo cold despite the sun!
This is way of execution is thought to be too cruel for the SS guards...it involved lots of human contact between the guards and the prisoners..so the SS devised a new method of execution..so as to desensitize the SS guards and to reduce contact between the guards and the prisoners...
This is the place where the hideous method r carried out!
In the pix, one can see sections of room..though the walls r already being torn down...this is the place where the prisoners r told tt they will need 2 do a medical check up...first there will be SS guards wearing white lab coat to pretend to be doctors and medical officers..they will first ask all the prisoners to open their mouth..purpose? to check for any gold teeth...if one has gold teeth, ur no. is noted..next the prisoners one by one will enter into a separate room enclosed by sound proof walls, there will be music being played to ease the tension and suspense..the prisoner will then asked to take height measurement by leaning onto a wall in a sitting position, the next moment, before they knew..they r shot to death by a SS guard behind the room...
the SS guard will simply just trigger its gun the moment the prisoner place lean against the wall, there is a small hole on the wall just enough for the SS guard to aim through it and shoot the prisoner on it head!
There is no personal contact between the guard carrying out the execution n the prisoners..the guard don noe how the prisoners look like through tt small hole, the room is sound proof, one cannot hear any sound of terror at all..it dehumanize the guard..the guard just had to keep pulling the trigger through the small hole tt all...he cannot even see how the prisoner look like..in his view it is just one black hole... n because the bullet goes straight into the prisoner's head, thr wil not be any blood or gory scene...
those prisoners who r dead and have gold teeth, their gold r extracted and melted!
Extremely cruel rite? The person who devise this method of execution prob get a pay rise...prisoners r even kept calm by the playing of the classical music...such a devious and detailed method 2 dehumanize the SS guard...

Let head to the medical room for autopsy...This is the only exact room that remains from the concentration camp without any renovation done to it...
This is the table? or i don noe what to cal it..where autopsy r being performed..
Next we head down to the underground...this is whr all the dead bodied of the prisoners r found!

These r the places where one can find thousands and thousands of bodies...it is soo scary tt even the SS guards never gg to this place alone...they will always gg in pairs and only gg in when very necessary....
Ironical isn't it? They killed all these prisoners and now they r scared of their mere dead bodies?..but to be honest..it is rather eerie down there..even WL also feels it and ask me to gg with her and not to gg alone..

Finally! We have finish the concentration tour! and i finally finish blogging it...stay tuned for Berlin day 3!