Cimmerian: A Novel Of The Holocaust - Plot & Excerpts
Poland, what little he had seen of it, was cold and wet, with sky the color of grey metal, and heavy, low clouds. The trees along the railroad tracks were overgrown and pressed down from both sides. It was a dark, gloomy place, this valley. There had been no dwellings, no cultivated fields, no sign of any life since before the train left the main line. Frost hung thick in the air. Peter’s relief at not spending the impending winter on the Eastern Front had been replaced with apprehension at what lay ahead.His fellow travelers, recent graduates from the Residential SS troop training school, were scattered on the straw in the boxcar. Their possessions, still new and shiny, were scattered about but the men and gear were still not enough to fill the space.The situation with the Jews bound for the concentration camp -- the KZ as it was called -- was very different. They were crammed standing into filthy cattle cars. Though they had stopped several times to add additional cars, the prisoners had never been let out.
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