This power-crazed, malicious wild beast was a purebred creation of the diabolically imaginative Nazi system, which was based on that old supposition—proven true on countless occasions—that the best slave driver is a slave accorded a privileged position. The bulk of the camp aristocracy was comprised of characters cut from the same cloth.
“Two häftlinge with the same family name, Weisz, have made the most successful “careers” in Eule. One of them—a squat, low-browed sales clerk from Upper Hungary—has become the Urban Company’s chief kapo.”
