"My conscience is clear. I was simply doing my duty..."

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“My guilt is that I am still here...I should have died. That is my guilt.”

“Cargo. They were cargo. I think it started the day I first saw the Totenlager in Treblinka. I remember Wirth standing there, next to the pits full of blue-black corpses. It had nothing to do with humanity-it couldn't have; it was a mass-a mass of rotting flesh. Wirth said, 'What shall we do with this garbage?' I think unconsciously that started me thinking of them as cargo.”

“No, no, no. This was the system. Wirth had invented it. It worked. And because it worked, it was irreversible.”

“I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass...they were naked, packed together, running, being driven with whips.”

“He was a Dragoner . Our lives were run on regimental lines. I was scared to death of him.”

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