Nearly 80 years later, Ben Ferencz could still recall watching in horror as concentration-camp prisoners, days after their liberation, captured an SS guard and burned him alive in one of the Nazis' own ovens.'Not all of the inmates were helpless,' he told me. 'They caught one of the guards and they beat him with their fists. Somebody brought from the crematorium one of the trays they used to shovel people into the furnace. They tied him to it and put him in the oven, just enough to warm him up.'Then they pulled him out again, beat him up again, put him in again, burned him up again — about two or three times until he was well-cooked.'
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