Journal Entery

Date: 31 December 2007

Entery Number: 7

Page/Quote reflecting on: Pgs. 60-62

How could the SS hang a little boy? It's vile and indescribably cruel. I don't see how anybody could do such a thing. "One day when we came back from work, we saw three gallows rearing up in the assembly place, three black crows... Three victims in chains-and one of them, the little servant, the sad-eyed angel." "The two adults were no longer alive...But the third rope was still moving; being so light, the child was still alive...For more than half an hour he stayed there, struggling between life and death, dying in slow agony under our eyes...That night the soup tasted of corpses." How could some one be that cruel? I don't understand. Why didn't they just shoot him or something after seeing that he was still alive for a long time after the adults had died? Why did they just leave him to hang and die in agony? Why did they have to kill him? He was just a boy. He did know some valuable information about men who had hidden some weapons but after what happened to the other two men, the young boy, and the Dutch Oberkapo I doubt they would come clean, so really it was of no use in torturing him and then hanging him. They might have been able to get info out of him by being nice and sweet talking him, but they didn't have to kill him or at least not in that agonizing way. I just can't comprehend how those men and the SS could be that cruel. They are totally inhumane.