During the course of 1943 the manner of the beatings worsened and a new sort of Bock was introduced. Women were put in special rubber pants in case they urinated and told to lie face-down on the table, which was indented like a trough, edged with wooden rods, and had iron stirrups for the legs, placed below knee level. Two inmates, usually green or black triangles, put the woman into the stirrups and fastened a leather belt that went around her shoulder blades. As the beating began they held on to the rubber pants, pulling tight as an SS man or another prisoner beat her with a leather riding
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