Author tells story of prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp after the liberation when they break into the guards barracks and kidnap him, after kidnapping him they trample and beat him to death to get vengeance for what the Germans did In the poem “Silence” by Tadeusz Borowsk, the author tells of a response to hate by prisoners in a concentration camp. An American liberator tells them not to commit lawless deeds saying “We must show respect for the law, I assure you that the guilty will be punished in this camp, and the others.”A statement in which the prisoners pretend to take to heart as the prisoners “pulled off the bunk where-covered with blankets and half smothered with the weight of our own bodies he lay gagged, his face buried in the straw mattress and dragged him out to the cement floor under the stove, where the entire block, grunting and grumbling with hatred, trampled him to death.” Which is describing the prisoners murder of one of the SS guards who was brutalizing them in the camp.