Fascists realized that they had to liquidate the camp. They worked hard, hurriedly ringed the ravine with fences for concealment and camouflaged these with twigs. In other places they planted trees and shrubbery. The road to Babi Yar from town was blocked off. When trucks approached with supplies the German drivers dismounted far from the ravine and guards took their places at the wheel and drove on into Babi Yar. The trucks brought rails, stone slabs, and lumber and oil drums. This was the final phase of Babi Yar- they tried to erase it from history. People were split into brigades and the unflagging productive toil exacted of them was a model of methodical German efficiency. The diggers dug out the pits, taking out bodies was extremely hard, some bodies especially children’s had no scars which meant that they were buried alive. Women’s body especially young once were the opposite it was sadistically mutilated. The stench made the Germans hold their nose and some were sick. Very often they drank vodka and were perpetually drunk. The hookers ripped the corpses apart and dragged them to the furnaces. Each of them had a specially forged metal rod with a handle at one end and a hook at the other. These tools were made from a designed that Topaide prepared. He came out with a system of pulling out a body so it wouldn’t fall apart. They had to grasp the body under the chin with the hook and haul it with the lower jaw. Then it could be dragged out as one
Fascists realized that they had to liquidate the camp. They worked hard, hurriedly ringed the ravine with fences for concealment and camouflaged these with twigs. In other places they planted trees and shrubbery. The road to Babi Yar from town was blocked off. When trucks approached with supplies the German drivers dismounted far from the ravine and guards took their places at the wheel and drove on into Babi Yar. The trucks brought rails, stone slabs, and lumber and oil drums. This was the final phase of Babi Yar- they tried to erase it from history. People were split into brigades and the unflagging productive toil exacted of them was a model of methodical German efficiency. The diggers dug out the pits, taking out bodies was extremely hard, some bodies especially children’s had no scars which meant that they were buried alive. Women’s body especially young once were the opposite it was sadistically mutilated. The stench made the Germans hold their nose and some were sick. Very often they drank vodka and were perpetually drunk. The hookers ripped the corpses apart and dragged them to the furnaces. Each of them had a specially forged metal rod with a handle at one end and a hook at the other. These tools were made from a designed that Topaide prepared. He came out with a system of pulling out a body so it wouldn’t fall apart. They had to grasp the body under the chin with the hook and haul it with the lower jaw. Then it could be dragged out as one