I Still Smell It Even Today

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Pavel Macháček arrived to Flossenbürg in autumn 1944. For some time, he lived in a block next to the crematorium and soon he found out how the dead bodies were burned. “There were only small cremators for two bodies. So the majority of corpses were burned in piles.” The prisoners who had to do the burning always paired one fat and one skinny corpse, because the fat bodies burned better. “The sweet odour from the burning was terrible. I still smell it even today.”

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Pavel Macháček

Pavel Macháček was born on August 15, 1921, in Prague. During the war, he was hiding his friend Jiří Synek (a poet known under his pen name František Listopad) He went through The Small Fortress in Terezín, the Flossenbürg concentration camp and he survived a death march. After the war he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, as well as the Czechoslovak Army. He remained in the Army until 1970, when he was dismissed for being “politically unreliable”. Then he shortly worked as a warehouseman and later as a security and fire technician for the Postal and Newspapers Services. Mr. Macháček died in 2008.

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Flossenbürg

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KT Flossenbürg byl určen pro údajné „antisociální“ a „kriminální“ živly, vězněni v něm však byli vesměs političtí oponenti nacistů. Umístění tábora bylo vybráno tak, aby vězni mohli být využiti jako bezplatná pracovní síla pro nedaleké žulové lomy. Flossenbürg náležel do druhé generace nacistických koncentračních táborů, a byl jedním z prvních, v nichž byla uplatňována nová forma teroru pod heslem „Vernichtung durch Arbeit“ (likvidace prací). Vězni zde museli velmi tvrdě pracovat, aniž by za to dostávali odpovídající stravu a zdravotní péči, přičemž za každý přestupek byli nelítostně trestáni. Celkem prošlo táborem asi 100 000 vězňů, z nichž nejméně 30 000 zahynulo.

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I Still Smell It Even Today

Pavel Macháček