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Ilse shook her head. "There are no special treatments."
Carla said: "Ilse, let me get this clear. Do they kill every patient that comes here?"
"Every one."
"As soon as they arrive?"
"Within a day, no more than two."
It was what Carla had suspected, but even so, the stark reality was horrifying, and she felt nauseated.
After a minute she said: "Are there any patients there now?"
"Not alive. We were giving injections this afternoon. That's why Frau Schmidt was so frightened when you walked in."
"Why don't they make it harder for strangers to get into the building?"
"They think guards and barbed wire around a hospital would make it obvious that something sinister was going on. Anyway, no one ever tried to visit before you."
"How many people died today?"
"Fifty-two."
Carla's skin crawled. "The hospital killed fifty-two people this afternoon, around the time we were there?"
"Yes."
"So they're all dead, now?"
Ilse nodded.
An intention had been germinating in Carla's mind, and now she resolved to carry it out. "I want to see," she said.
Ilse looked frightened. "What do you mean?"
"I want to go inside the hospital and see those corpses."
"They're burning them already."
"Then I want to see that. Can you sneak us in?"
"Tonight?"
"Right now."
"Oh, God."
Carla said: "You don't have to do anything. You've already been brave, just by talking to us. If you don't want to do any more, it's okay. But if we're going to put a stop to this we need proof."
"Proof?"
"Yes. Look, the government is ashamed of this project--that's why it's secret. The Nazis know that ordinary Germans won't tolerate the killing of children. But people prefer to believe it's not happening, and it's easy for them to dismiss a rumor, especially if they hear it from a young girl. So we have to prove it to them."
"I see." Ilse's pretty face took on a look of grim determination. "All right, then. I'll take you."
Carla stood up. "How do you normally get there?"
"Bicycle. It's outside."
