Ludwik Goraj
Class 5
What do the mass graves tell us?
Mass graves tell us about German crimes. Six years of war passed, during which the Polish population suffered a lot. From 1939 to 1945, the German occupier destroyed people’s belongings and, moreover, murdered Poles. Murder consisted of taking Poles to concentration camps, labor camps, and labor camps in agriculture, and also sentencing them to punishment [missing] on the gallows in front of other people. At that time, all the prisons were filled with Poles, often even with those who were innocent, and then [they were] transported to concentration camps like Auschwitz, Majdanek, and many other camps located in Germany.
In prisons, people were beaten and sometimes tortured to confess to their crimes, while in concentration camps, murdering people was a bit different. There, from dawn to dusk, people had to work in the field, and without exception, whether it was raining and snowing, or there was frost or any possible weather. People were treated like animals. The Germans set dogs on them and beat them with rifle stocks to death, and that was it for the slightest offense. People who were unfit for work due to illness or exhaustion were gassed, then burned in furnaces – the so-called crematoria. They [Germans] also had many other ways of murdering Poles.
Finally, when the Russians were approaching the west, the Germans transported the population to the interior of their country to work there in factories, mostly ammunition [illegible]. It was only from the west that America and England, attacking the Germans, contributed to the liquidation of all concentration camps. But so what? The people led by the Gestapo, who knows where and for what purpose, were dying. There were many dead bodies on the roads.
Finally, the end of this torment came, but so what, since very few Poles returned home. Most of the deaths, however, were of young people.