“Not far from the ditch stood the chief of police, Lieutenant Reich, and the chief of the SD, whose name I don’t know, the two directors of the shooting, who, under the approving eyes of the regional kommissar, Reindel, gave the orders throughout…. With evil smiles on their lips, smoking cigarettes the whole time, they encouraged their subordinates, who were excited by the smell of blood, and laughed to see the blows connect as they rained down on the heads of the terrified Jews.
