Deutsche Disziplin

From Elaine Landau's book: After a while I, along with a number of others, was taken from Theresienstadt to a site near Berlin where we worked on a construction crew building lodgings for Gestapo officers. I remained on the project for about a year. We did hard physical labour daily for at least fifteen-hour shifts. At night we slept on a wooden board. At times, the guards' treatment of us was extremely harsh. Once when a guard felt I wasn't working fast enough, he hit me in the mouth with a large steel pipe, knocking out all my teeth. I also acquired a number of scars from the frequent beatings.