“Buchenwald, 12.4.45
My little bit loved,
Finally, this nightmare of hunger and death is over. I dare not believe it yet. The fight was short and went well, the SS having saved. It was more than time that all this ended because the percentage of the dead, with regard to convoys of January 1944, rises at least 60 %! ! You cannot imagine what we have seen in this hell; I could naturally not make it known in my previous letters, you guess well why. The rope was easily stretched here you know! For the moment, I have only the spectacle of death, everywhere wherever we turn is only corpses, therefore thinks that in February we had 5,200 and even more in March. How many friends will no longer see France! How many died in my arms!
I could not have seen you again, fortunately only good friends of my organization were there. I warned you by my last letter that on August 14, 1944 I had been created a pneumothorax on the left side, it succeeded roughly: it will be necessary to cut the adhesions at the top. All this will be nothing. I stayed six and a half months in the hospital where I was like a cock in connection with the comrades who stayed at blocks. The bombing of the camp factory on August 24 killed around 400 people among the prisoners, which was relatively zero if we compare the workforce! Later, at the bombing of the Weimar factory [près du camp de Buchenwald] We have lost new comrades, the list is long alas, I already told you.
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Source: Lemonde