The German guards panicked; some fled, and others switched their military uniforms for prison garb that they had stripped from the dead, hoping not to be recognized.
Vācu sargus pārņēma panika: daži aizbēga, bet citi, cerēdami, ka viņus nepazīs, apmainīja savu uniformu pret ieslodzīto drēbēm, ko bija novilkuši mirušajiem.