Summary

In Chapter 23, Yanek and the prisoners arrived at Sachsenhausen camp, close to Berlin. He was starving and began to welcome the thought of death as release from his pain. After being given food, they were allowed to sleep. Yanek remarked the following morning on the ubiquity of death in the camp, with dead bodies lying everywhere he looked. He ate his bread in the morning and washed in the cold water, running his fingers over his teeth in a way that reminded him of a time when he had a toothbrush. Their line-up for roll call was horrifying, with one man made to squat on his weak legs of be beaten to death and another man committing suicide by running straight to the electric fence. After being forced to break rocks for hours, Yanek and some other prisoners were called into the soldiers...