This is Jocco Podcast number 155 with me, Jocco Willink.

On the island, the dead were piling up. In the mission report, the head of the convoy

wrote, at 2 p.m. on May 20th, I went to the island of Nazino with Commander Tepskov.

There was a terrible scramble, people crowding and fighting around the bags of flower,

dead bodies everywhere, a hundred or more, and lots of people crawling about and crying,

give us bread, boss, it's been two days since we've been given anything to eat.

They're trying to make us die of hunger and the cold.

They told us that people had begun eating the dead bodies, that they were cooking human flesh.

The scene on the island was dreadful appalling. On May 21st, the three health officers

counted 70 additional dead bodies. In five cases, they emphasized, the liver, the heart,

the lungs, and fleshy part of bodies had been cut off. On one of the bodies, the head had been torn

off along with the male genital organs and part of the skin.

These mutilations constitute strong evidence of cannibalistic acts. In addition, they suggest

the existence of serious psychopathologies. On the same day, May 21st, the deportees themselves

brought us three individuals who had been caught with blood on their hands and holding human livers.

Our examination of these three individuals did not reveal any extreme amaciation.

And there's an elderly local peasant woman who reported the things we saw.

People were dying everywhere. They were killing each other.

There was a guard named Kostia Venikov, a young fellow. He was courting a pretty girl who had been

sent there. He protected her. One day, he had to be away for a while.

And he told one of his comrades, take care of her. But with all the people, the comrade couldn't do much.

People caught the girl, tied her to a tree, caught off her breasts, her muscles, everything they could eat.

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