Working hours at Buchenwald are sixteen daily, including Sundays, During working hours, i is for-Biddon to drink, even in the hottest weather, 'According to one ex-prisoner, a well-to-do Jewish businessman, the food was mot bad, but quila' suMlcient. While he was there, the work of Jewish prisoners was doubled and the rations halved, The work consisted in moving heavy stones far beyond the strength of even a normal well-fed man, Jews were sneotingly told by the guards that they were only" experiencing the treatment as their" fore" fathers in Egypt, and that Pharaoh had no kone halt far enough, Mon were kept standing at alton tion for many hours on end, Floggings were frequent for such small offences as drinking water in hours, The usual—punishment was 25° strokes, given alternately by two guards, This often reduced unconsciousness, but Jews were told that the Fuehrer "had given orders that Jows might roceive up to 60 strokes.
Another ex-prisoner, a small businessman arrested in June, 1938, in a round-up in the streets of Berlin without cause or pretext, describing the floggings, said "the normal punishment was 25. strokes fon the seat carried out by. two guards. standing on euch side" with riding wh he cried, "the strokes were increased to 35, The guards used all their force, some-limes springing into'the alr to bring the arm down with me creased momentum,
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