The dead no longer could be accommodated. [WWII]

>Franz Schlolz, the priest at the Catholic parish of St Bonifatius in the east of Görlitz, wrote in his diary about conditions there during the last weeks of the [**Second World**] war: >*The mortuary at the municipal cemetery is bursting at the seams. For some time now the dead no longer could be accommodated. Therefore only the countless corpses of children are brought there. The huge hall of the Nikolai Church is used for the corpses of the adults. Some 100 corpses, placed temporarily in boxes, await burial. […] In the entrance hall one sees a pile of the dead, taller than a man and covered with sackcloth, barely two metres long and two metres wide. At one end a tangle of naked feet, at the other hair and people’s heads.* ________________________ **Source:** Bessel, Richard. “Conclusion: Life After Death.” *Germany 1945: From War to Peace*. New York, NY, HarperCollins, 2009. 386. Print. ________________________ **Further Reading:** [Franz Scholz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Scholz)