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Waffen- 44
44-Standortkommandantur
Dachau 3, den
Dachau
Vernruf Dacham 293
Then is a runner cererlating which
Betreff:
Jezug: says that the wan is over. It probably is -
Anlagen: as much as it ever will be. Wi've all
been effecting the end for several days, but
were not too excited about it because we
know that it does not mean too much
as far as our immediate situations is con
cerved.
There was no celebration - it's
difficult to celebrate anything with the
morbid state were in.
The Pacific theater will not come
immediately for this unit; we have around
36, 000 potential and eventual patients here.
The end of the work for everyone else is going
to to just the begining for us.
Today was a seaching hat day
after several raining cold ones. The result
of the heat on the corpses is impossible to
describe, and the situations will probably get
worse because then disposal will certainly
taki time.
My are is sou from a typlurs shot
so I'm ending her for the present.
More will follow later. l how lots to
write about now.
Leve,
16359
Hould
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