After nightfall why? Was it because it was too hot throughout the day or did the officers just want to wait till night? If the sick were not evacuated were they properly cared for or not?
“After the war, I learned the fate of those who had remained at the infirmary. They were, quite simply, liberated by the Russians, two days after the evacuation”(82).
Did the officers know that after the evacuation that the Russians were coming.
“There was whispering from one bunk to the other; with a little luck, the Russians would be there before the evacuation. Hope was still alive”(83).
The Russians