One-Way Hospital Visits

Shortly after arriving in our new location the barrack doctor announced that we are all entitled to volunteer to be sent to the hospital, where we would receive plenty of good food. The doctor himself escorted those unfortunate people who volunteered to the hospital - no one ever saw those helpless creatures again. In fact within twenty-four hours after escorting them to the hospital, the doctor himself declared loudly to the whole barrack about their deaths. This should have served as a warning not to volunteer, but in spite of this, people still did volunteer and went to their death. Years later I heard that the doctors and their families ate the better food designated for the sick.

© David Muskal, 2001