Lorenz Hemicker

He was a deputy.

And against this backdrop, he was a guy who was responsible for the work progress.

So if the progress was not fast enough, then he was a person who decided about the

It's ironic, it's sarcasm to say security conditions, but he was the one who decided who has to take a bigger risk to increase the speed of the work speed.

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, the SS contingent was relatively slow.

I think you should mention that most of the work was overseen by civil factories, Austrian civil factories, because the SS also had a lack of personnel at the end of the Second World War.

But they were in charge for the workspace and they had to take the final decisions there.

Not by the workers.

And that's interesting to see because I made here the similar observation like in Riga.

The Jewish people just weren't able to take a closer look on the officers.

It was even dangerous to do such things.

But I received an impression of the behavior of the SS people from other citizens because the SS behaved in the area around Meck, according to a mayor there, like occupiers.

Not like France, they just took what they needed, they destroyed what they thought had to be destroyed.

For example, giving houses if they were standing in a way of a new road that had to be built, all those things.

There were many rumors, there were many differences between the civil societies, the civil Nazis there and the SS in that time.

They were really reckless.

Yeah, it is.

And it's maybe an even more perfidious one because you do not just kill people, but you also try to press as much out of them as possible, all of their workforce before you kill them.

At least he was separated from this brutal reality after his work.