Soul to the Rhine

Chapter 82 Check

Rosia felt that the name sounded familiar, but many Europeans had the same names and their names were long, so she couldn't remember a few of them.

Her only luggage was a backpack, which was very light and she didn’t even need to put it away, so Karl took her elsewhere.

"Miss Rosia, if there is no need, I suggest you not to show up alone in any part of the concentration camp." Karl did not introduce her to the buildings on the roadside, nor did he tell her how to walk these roads. Take her to the front of a barracks.

There was already a long line of people there, all of them Jews she had seen before. At the front of the line, there were two tables with a doctor in a white coat sitting there.

"Doctor Joseph, this is Miss Rosia Franti from the Red Cross, here to improve hygiene for a period of time. Next, she may assist you in your work." Karl looked in awe of the doctor, even He speaks with high honorifics.

Joseph was writing something on the table. When every Jew came, he would check it and give them a list.Hearing Karl's voice, he only glanced at Rosia and said, "Let her coax the child. I don't need a woman's help."

Carlton was a little embarrassed, but Rosia's heart skipped a beat and she couldn't help but feel ecstatic.

An old Jewish man came forward. Joseph frowned and asked, "How old are you?"

"65."

"Open your mouth."

The Jew opened his mouth, and Joseph grabbed his chin and looked at it twice, handed him a form, and then said to the soldier next to him: "Second Battalion."

The old Jewish man was put into a different team.

Rosia was waiting for Carl to take her to "coax" the child, but Carl was still insisting on admonishing Joseph: "Doctor Joseph, Miss Rosia is a doctor, not a nurse, and she is fully qualified for the job here. , which will lighten your load.”

Rosia gasped after hearing this, her lungs trembled, she wished she could give him a slap.

Joseph spared a second from his busy schedule and glanced at her: "Okay, let her check those women."

Kraft immediately turned around happily and gave Rosia a smile, as if this was such an incredible job and what a great honor it was to be able to inspect the Jews. However, Rosia was already so angry that she didn’t want to speak. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was passed on to this little bitch. It was smashed and lost.

Female Jews were inspected more strictly than male Jews, because for many reasons, female Jews lost their ability to work, and they had to be separated from Jews who could perform labor.

Karl took a stack of forms from Joseph's desk and handed them to her.

Rosia could only reluctantly follow him to check on the female Jew while forcing a smile.In front of another barracks, the female Jews had been waiting for a long time. The cold kept them close together, stamping their feet from time to time, breathing in the heat, and absorbing the weak warmth from each other.

Rosia wrapped the scarf around her neck and walked to the table. The two soldiers saw her casting a doubtful look at Karl.

Karl explained cheerfully, and the two soldiers next to him told her the items to be inspected.

"Those who can work will go to the labor camp, and those who can't work will be sent to the second battalion. The results of your inspection will determine the barracks and food they will be allocated."

Rosia looked at the form in her hand suspiciously. It was just an ordinary information registration form, but she doubted that the concentration camp would be so kind as to distribute food to those who could not work.Two years ago, when she helped the Jewish girl Lisa apply for a blue card, she heard her say that those who could work would be kept in the quarantine area, and those who could not work would be sent to concentration camps.So what happened to those who couldn't work in the concentration camps?
She didn't dare to think about it.

Now the lives of these poor women were in her hands, possibly with a different fate because of one of her diagnoses, and she had to treat them with the utmost dignity.

Although I was really anxious to find Pino, I was already in a concentration camp, and there was no good way to do it quickly.

The first Jewish woman was a girl in her 20s, unmarried, and except for being a little thin, she had no symptoms of any disease. Rosia only asked if she had any history of infectious diseases, and then she was sent to the labor camp.

The moment she got the result, the Jewish girl's expression immediately became happy, and the people behind her took a step forward anxiously.

Rosia checked very carefully. Half an hour passed before she checked about forty people. In fact, she felt that it was already very fast, but the two soldiers next to her were already very impatient.

"Ma'am, can't you tell if she is healthy and ask if what she says is false?"

When Rosia was busy, she ignored the etiquette issues and said while handing over the form: "If you can tell whether they have had an infectious disease with just your eyes, then why do you need to check for it?" She raised her head and looked at the soldier: "The reason why I ask is that I don't think they have the guts to deceive you."

The soldier snorted and stopped talking, while Karl walked over and the two of them whispered a few words to each other.

After a while, a 30-year-old woman walked in front of Rosia. She covered her head with a large shawl and buried her whole face in the scarf.

"Is there any history of infectious diseases?"

"No...no...cough!" The woman's voice was very weak, and Rosia could barely hear her voice. At the end, she suddenly couldn't help coughing, and then her eyes widened in fear. He took a step back in panic.

The two soldiers next to her rushed up immediately, grabbed her arm and dragged her out.Rosia was stunned, and stood up to stop them: "What is this for? She just has a common cold."

The soldier sneered and dragged the woman aside: "Ma'am, she is likely to develop flu, tuberculosis, and then what you call an infectious disease."

Rosia felt unreasonable: "But she just has a cold now. She will be fine if she takes some medicine and wears more clothes."

"There is no extra supplies here for these lowly Jews. If your Red Cross is really rich in supplies, you can donate more. The lives of our soldiers are much more noble than hers."

"No, please let me go. I don't have a cold. I'm better. I'm an excellent tailor. I can work right away." The Jewish woman screamed in horror, but the soldier ignored her and sent her to the hospital. Dragging them to the foot of a tree in the distance, they could no longer be seen in the darkness.

"Bang!" A shot rang out.

Rosia was shocked by the voice and felt that one of her nerves had been broken.The people here are all crazy, they are all crazy, even a cold can be an excuse to kill someone.

Her eyelids kept trembling, and when she sat back on the chair again, without being urged, her speed increased by itself.

It's so cold now that these poor people can easily get cold and cold outside. Her carefulness is only accelerating the demise of those behind her.

In less than an hour, Rosia checked the remaining Jews, and only two were sent to the second camp. That was because they were too old to work, and their participation in intensive labor was likely to cause them to die suddenly from exhaustion.

The soldier who shot the Jewish women led them back to the barracks. Before leaving, he said to her with a half-smile: "Madam, believe me, this group of Jews you inspected is definitely the healthiest group I have ever seen."

Rosia didn't know how to answer, so she could only watch him lead the people away with no expression on her face.

Karl comforted her on the side: "Don't worry, Miss Rosia, that's just the way he is. You will see him in a more annoying way in the future."

Rosia shook her head. Her mind was in a mess and her head hurt. These two hours were more painful than when she operated on the wounded in the hospital.And what she wants to do is not clear yet.

"Karl, what about the kids? Don't they need to be checked?"

Karl smiled and shook his head: "Children don't need to be checked, and they can't work. We keep them just to make adults more honest."

Rosia was disappointed and could no longer lift her spirits.

On the way back, the night wind picked up and it was very cold.But the lights were still bright in the concentration camp, and the sounds of Jews working could still be heard in some places, and from time to time a gunshot would be heard.The ground beneath our feet was dark red, and one had to wonder if it was the blood shed by a Jew.She felt that within two or three days, at most, if she could not find Pino, she would probably go crazy.

After spending a night in the concentration camp, she was awakened the next day not by the sound of the radio, but by the continuous sound of gunshots.

The genius had just dawned, and there were already people everywhere outside. The Jews stood in square formations, waiting for the Germans to check their names. If they moved a little, they would get a gun.Rosia hugged the not-so-thick cotton cloth and nestled on the corner of the bed for a long time before she realized where she was now.

Concentration camp!
The most notorious concentration camp of World War II!

She was stunned by the name for a long time, and then she smiled bitterly.

Rosia, Rosia, you are really getting better and better as you live, and your courage is getting fatter and fatter. You even dare to enter the concentration camp alone. If you go back to modern times, should someone give you an award for the most daring?

She slowly got out of bed, thinking that she would have to find Pino today, so she forced herself to cheer up.There is a simple shelf in the corner with a washbasin on it.She filled the bucket with water, washed briefly, and opened the door.

Karl was already waiting outside. Rosia couldn't be happy to see such a military uniform so early in the morning.

"You, have you been waiting long?"

Karl smiled and touched his head: "No, it's better here. It would be cold if I went to stand guard outside."

All right!Rosia knew that he was ordered to monitor her, so she could only put her thoughts aside and wait until she went out to act accordingly.

"Then what do I need to do today? My colleagues should be here soon."

"There is nothing to do now. The second batch of supplies you donated has not arrived yet, so we cannot make large-scale sanitation improvements in the camp. Miss Rosia can rest in the room today, or she can go to Dr. Joseph to do some auxiliary work."

"Perhaps, I can go and see the Jewish barracks...how to improve hygiene..."

Karl shook his head: "No."

"...Then let's go to Dr. Joseph's."

Joseph should be a person with great power in this concentration camp. In short, many German soldiers Rosia met were in awe of him, and most of the Jews were afraid of him.

His workplace occupies a large area and seems to have a laboratory.

When she arrived at the door of the laboratory, Rosia suddenly covered her stomach and groaned.

Karl turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"

"I think I had a bad stomach last night and I'm not used to your food."

"In this case," Karl pointed to the northeast corner: "The women's toilet is there. It's not convenient for me to go there. You can come and find me later."

"Ok!"

　It’s finally over, and tomorrow I will end this frustrating description.I want to say something about this concentration camp. In September 1941, the second camp was still under construction and was only completed in October. For the sake of the plot, I temporarily moved it forward a month...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)