The Slovak women were stripped, a process the Ravensbrück prisoner guards were familiar with, but the difference here was that none of their possessions were recorded. ‘Our first thought was why are all the prisoners’ possessions jumbled up? Later the women will surely have to get their stuff back.’ Clothes were also thrown on a big pile, and the food they brought set aside. The Slovakians were then made to stand naked ready for the ‘bath’, described by Luise as a tub eight metres wide in which all 1000 women had to take a bath in the same water.
