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unbridled raving sadism, of physical ill-treatment and moral torture of the prisoners[...]. Krüger felt especially strong when there were National Socialist visitors towhom he could present us. Like a self-important tamer in a small touring circus hewould then stride around the camp, summoning the "VIPs" of the camp andintroducing them to the visitors with vile remarks. "Just look at these shepherds!This here is another overfed burgomaster of the SPD! This Jewish swine here openedhis filthy trap against our Führer!" and other insults of this kind - and the prisoneralways had to stand at attention and let himself be abused in silence! In October, forreasons not accurately known to us prisoners, Krüger was removed; first he wastransferred to the Blumberg branch camp as a kind of "honorary detainee" and then hewas completely dismissed and sent home, as was reported by visitors from Trebbin.But the "tradition" of Room 16, that he created, continues to exist.The person continuing it is Sturmführer Stahlkopf, 4 who already was a keenparticipant in all crimes in Krüger's day. While Krüger had a certain daredevilbrutality, Stahlkopf is the type of the creepy particularly infamous sadist, whosecharacter has a downright unimaginable vileness. The abysmal meanness of this manis perhaps best revealed in an episode that took place on the day before my escape.A married prisoner is called to Room 16 for interrogation. Stahlkopf asks him; "Howlong have you been in custody?" "Six months", the prisoner answers. "So who isf...ing your wife back home?"A special peculiarity of Sturmführer Stahlkopf was that at night, when he was slightlydrunk, he would collect prisoners from the dormitories in order to beat them or to put4 Hans Stahlkopf, an SA guard.