Chapter 2100: Piled up Like a Mountain

"What the hell is this place? Two big chimneys??? Are the Germans generating electricity here? Is it worth building a thermal power plant here???"

Iushkin didn't understand what the building with two big chimneys in front of him was used for, but Malashenko could barely remember it with his future memory.

The scale of Camp No. 3 was not as large as Camps 1 and 2. The people who stayed here were mainly engaged in some labor work and produced various light industrial products. The "extermination camp" where large-scale massacres were concentrated was also in Camp No. 2 instead of here.

However, Camp No. 3 still had all the "functional facilities" it should have.

The "local characteristics" of Auschwitz, the two things of gas chambers and crematoriums, were all available in Camp No. 3. People who were deemed unable to continue working and had lost their value would be thrown into the gas chamber to force their lives to end, and the death process and various data parameters would be observed and recorded, which was considered to squeeze out the last bit of their value.

After that, they would be transported to the crematorium and burned, completely destroying the evidence that the persecuted people had ever lived in this world, leaving no trace.

So the two chimneys that surprised Iushkin were not "thermal power plants" at all, but things used to burn corpses and spray corpse smoke and oil.

Malashenko, who knew this clearly, did not say anything, but just signaled Iushkin to follow his steps and just walk in.

"Hello, division commander!"

"Comrade division commander."

"Hello, comrade division commander!"

As soon as Malashenko led the people in, he saw a team of Red Army soldiers who were handling the affairs here, fiddling with a pile of corpses lying on the ground.

The strange thing was the disorder of these corpses. There were both those wearing prison uniforms and those wearing SS uniforms, but without exception, they were all dead bodies, like some kind of apocalyptic scene, piled up on the ground, at least hundreds of them.

The soldiers greeted the division commander who came to inspect the place and stopped their work. Curious Malashenko looked at the pile of bodies and asked.

"What's going on? Why are the bodies of prisoners and SS bastards piled together? Who killed them?"

The lieutenant platoon leader in charge of handling the affairs here took the initiative to answer the division commander when he saw Malashenko asking.

"Comrade division commander, we had these prisoners' bodies here when we arrived. They were piled up into a small hill, but they were not completely stiff. They should have died not long ago.

"As for the bodies of these SS bastards, they were either not only refused to surrender, but also dared to shoot at us and were killed directly. Or they refused to surrender and turned their backs to us and tried to escape and were shot dead. The surviving SS bastards have been captured and taken away, and there are not many of them, only a dozen. "

"I am leading the soldiers to check these bodies to see if we can find any valuable information or things from them. For the convenience of handling, we dragged the SS bodies here and piled them together. After checking, we threw them directly into the pile of dead bodies. It just so happens that there is a crematorium here. I think it will be convenient to burn them together, so we don't have to dig a pit to bury them. "

The platoon leader's answer was clear and to the point. Looking at the pile of corpses as high as a hill in front of him, Malashenko nodded in approval.

But even so, Malashenko still had a question in his mind that had not been answered. Why were the prisoners, who accounted for the vast majority of the corpses, killed?

Is it a planned and prepared massacre?

This possibility cannot be ruled out, but Malashenko is thinking about another possibility: the Germans decided to kill people quickly for some reasons and some emergency situations.

This is not a groundless conjecture, but a conjecture that Malashenko made based on some actual situations.

Sudden large-scale massacres must urgently require a large number of additional personnel. Malashenko always felt that this was likely to be inseparable from the fact that the number of SS troops in the concentration camp was so large that it was obviously abnormal.

And judging from the situation of the pile of corpses in front of him, this did not seem to be an organized, planned, and pre-scheduled massacre.

If not, who would be in the furnace? There was no fire in the house, and the place was cold, but they put so many piles of corpses here, so many that they formed a small mountain.

It was not some evil ritual that had to pile up a mountain of corpses to perform a ritual. It was obvious that there was a problem with the connection between the burning of corpses and the destruction of evidence. There was an obvious disconnect between the two processes of killing and burning corpses. This was very much like a sudden decision to carry out a massacre, and the process was out of sync due to insufficient preparation.

If it was really a sudden decision to carry out a massacre, then what would happen in the concentration camp? It is easy to understand why there were so many SS soldiers.

Who can guarantee that there will not be a large-scale riot if the whole camp is suddenly exterminated? Moreover, if so many people are killed suddenly, more SS bastards will be needed to do the executioner's job, right? As a result, a large number of SS lackeys poured into the concentration camp, and they happened to be caught by Malashenko's leadership division?

As for why the Germans suddenly decided to carry out a massacre, this involves the issue that the SS bastards wanted to destroy the evidence and run away quickly.

Before leaving, you have to deal with as many "witnesses" as possible. The dead are the best at keeping secrets and will never speak, so the heinous crimes can be better hidden. But the reality is that before they had time to "start the work", the leader division suddenly came to the door and forcibly interrupted it. All the fascist lackeys from top to bottom could not escape.

Looking at the pile of corpses that obviously did not conform to common sense and the cold crematorium without fire in front of him, Malashenko felt more and more that the real situation was likely to be like this. As for whether it was true and the specific details, we can find out by prying some useful things from the mouths of those captured SS scum. This matter can be left for later.

Malashenko was thinking about something while looking at the pile of corpses in front of him, while Iushkin on the side was interested in the extra-large crematorium.

The size of the crematorium was as big as seven or eight Stalin heavy tanks stacked side by side. Iushkin had never seen such a large crematorium. Even the furnace door for throwing corpses into the crematorium was large enough for a normal adult man to walk in with his head held high without any restraint. This shocking degree can be seen from Iushkin's stunned expression.

"I think I have to go in and take a look. I brought a camera with me. Maybe I can take some evidence photos."

As soon as he finished speaking, before Malashenko could reply, Iushkin, who had already taken the camera bag hanging on his hip into his hand, went into the furnace to find out what was going on.