Given that there were 6544 prisoners in the camp at the time, the new target meant that nearly one third of Ravensbrück women were to be ‘mercifully killed’. Mennecke now saw that his diagnoses were a waste of time: the numbers were fixed in Berlin, and this annoyed him. Berlin didn’t care how the ‘sheets’ were chosen, he moaned to Eva. It was ‘chaos’, he complained. ‘Who is in charge in Berlin?’
