On Thursday 21 November, Mennecke starts his first day’s work at Ravensbrück. The same obsessive details pour out to Eva as he writes a timed running commentary: ‘I’m sitting down for lunch of lentil soup with bacon, omelette for dessert.’ In this letter we learn a little more about his work. He has had a meeting with the SS doctor Sonntag and SS Sturmbannführer Koegel, in which ‘it became clear that the number of people in question [i.e. to be killed] needed to be expanded by another sixty or seventy’.
