Horst schumann biography

In December 1942, the leader of my block announced that all men aged 18 to 30 were not going to work on the following day. Instead, as per the delivered list, they were supposed to go for an obligatory x-ray.

(…) On that day, when a group of 60 people were escorted to Block No. 31, they began to run us through x-ray machines in pairs. Prior to that, we were fully undressed.

Horst schumann biography

There was a level board installed in the machine, which was hitched up to the level of your sexual organs, and you needed to put your scrotum on it. Later they irradiated you with a large electric lamp, while you were standing, holding your hands on the small of your back. 

The procedure took from 5 to 7 minute per person.

I felt no pain during the irradiation.

After we were all x-rayed, or – as the physicians called it – after sterilisation, we were sent to the work we did prior to that. (…) Eight months later, after the sterilisation, everyone who was subjected t