These were people, you have no idea the skeletons, actually skeletons,
how they could walk around. There were people from all over Europe.
I remember taking a couple people out of the compound, we would put them on
cots to take them into the barracks. What we tried to do is to give plasma to these people.
Now if you ever saw an arm as big as a circle of your hand, get into a vein,
food we had to be careful, they could not digest meals. We would start off with a
gruel, try and start with that, but before we even did that we had to,
we had to delouse them. There was tuberculosis,
there was typhoid, there was dysentery rampant. We wore gowns, we wore masks,
we had our heads covered, we wore rubber gloves. And at that time, the only thing that we knew of
in 1945 was DDT, powder DDT. And we tried to take them out of the compound,
and we would shave their heads and wash them down, give them a clean gown, and put them into a bed,
and try to explain to them that they will get food, we will feed them. We gave them even bread,
they would hide it under the pillow, and we told them that they didn't have to hide anymore.