THE GREEN KING (part 10)
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The Photographer
from Salzburg
David
Settiniaz returned with Blackstock, a doctor, and two infantryman. Blackstock
photographed the grave as it was when they discovered it. These photographs
were never published, or even put on any file. But they were purchased,
thirteen years later, by the King, from Roy Blackstock and his wife. Blackstock
is the opinion that the boy survived not just because of a stupefying set of
circumstances. The position of Klimrod’s body as they removed him, showed that
he had begun a ferocious climb towards the surface as he was being buried. He
had cleared a way through the corpses of his eight companions, the task made
all the more difficult by the fact that he had be among the first thrown into
the ditch and the top of it had been stamped down by SS boots before being
covered with quicklime, then earth.
The grave
contained nine bodies, all of young boys, ranging in age from twelve to
seventeen, Reb Klimrod being the oldest and the only one to survive.
He was
unconscious again by the time they finally got him out of the ditch. Settiniaz
was astounded by the boy’s height, which he estimated at six feet, and by his
weight, about one hundred pounds.
He had been
shot once in the back of the head, behind the left ear. The bullet had slightly
grazed the lower lobe, had split the base of the occipital, and ploughed the
neck muscles above the nape, skimming the vertebra. In effect, the other wounds
were more serious and probably more painful. Two more bullets were removed, one
from the boy’s right thigh, the other from directly above the hip. The
quicklime had hit him in thirty other places. His back, hips, and lower abdomen
showed traces of hundreds of lashes and cigarette burns, some of the scars
years old. Only his face had been spared.
TO BE CONTINUED
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