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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Flossenbürg was conceived by the Nazis as a camp for “antisocial” (meaning mostly political opponents) and “criminal” elements. The camp was intentionally located close to granite quarries so that the prisoners could be used as a free workforce. Flossenbürg belonged to the so called second generation of the Nazi concentration camps, and it was one of the first camps where under the motto „Vernichtung durch Arbeit“ (of a new form of terror Extermination through labour) a new form of terror was applied. The prisoners had to do hard work without getting adequate food or health care; and any cruel misdemeanour was cruelly punished. A total number of 100,000 prisoners passed through the camp. About 30,000 died there.

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I Still Smell It Even Today

Pavel Macháček