Max Schloss was born on 29th December in Ulrichstein in Hesse. He was a war volunteer from to , as was his brother Hugo. His brother Moritz died on the field of honour for the "grateful German Reich". Max Schloss lived at Markenstrasse 28 in Gelsenkirchen-Horst, where he also had his shop. On 27th January , he was deported from Gelsenkirchen to Riga together with other family members.
From Riga he was sent to the Stutthof concentration camp, and from there via the Buchenwald concentration camp to a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Bochum. From there he, together with his son Lutz, managed to escape shortly before the end of the war. Max Schloss emigrated to the USA in He never really recovered from the tortures he suffered in camp detention. Unbridled Nazi hatred against the unfortunate enslaved led almost daily to the most severe mistreatment.
I myself was an inmate of the Kaiserwald camp and spent every evening with the comrades who worked in K-Werk 9. Thus I directly experienced the hardship of my comrades, which often exceeded my own suffering in its extent. The tortures and humiliations to which they were subjected seemed so commonplace to them that only "special cases" were discussed among themselves i. Tired of their miserable existence, a number of prisoners escaped from K-Werk 9 in the spring of in quick succession.
For each of the escaped prisoners, the SS led away two, three or more workmates as reprisals Those arrested were dragged to the main camp, from where they were transported onward the same day. The destination of the transport was called "the base". This man, who personified terror for all, then made the entire work detail of the prisoners stop work and start work, held his foul-mouthed speeches in which threats of death were repeated over and over again, he dictated harsher conditions of existence for everyone each time, and then - then he chose hostages as he "liked" them at that moment One day small explosions occurred in a workshop of K-Werk 9.
An old carbide container made of sheet metal, such as welders use, burst several times with a loud bang. It was not possible to determine whether these detonations were caused by overpressure or by the carelessness of a worker, but regardless, "the matter had to be reported to the SS The explosions caused neither personnel nor material damage, and hardly any significant interruption of work.
