Before emigrating to Israel... «Mother Night»
Vektus30 ноября 2017Before emigrating to Israel in 1947, Mengel helped to hang Hoess. And he didn’t do it with testimony, either. He did it with his two big hands. “When Hoess was hanged,” he told me, “the strap around his ankles—I put that on and made it tight.” “Did that give you a lot of satisfaction?” I said. “No,” he said. “I was like almost everybody who came through that war.” “What do you mean?” I said. “I got so I couldn’t feel anything,” said Mengel. “Every job was a job to do, and no job was any better or any worse than any other. ”After we finished hanging Hoess,” Mengel said to me, “I packed up my clothes to go home. The catch on my suitcase was broken, so I buckled it shut with a big leather strap. Twice within an hour I did the very same job—once to Hoess and once to my suitcase. Both jobs felt about the same.”
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