Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding

[Warpy]

81. There were enough escapees and people who watched full trains roll in and empty trains roll out

for weeks on end that they knew. They just didn't want to believe it. It broke their brains, quite honestly.

Admitting it would have forced them to admit what had happened to family members who had disappeared because they'd joined a trade union, or had Down's, or had a nervous breakdown, or were seen reading a book on socialism in college or were born blind or deaf, and the list of what the master race wanted to eliminate was a very long one. Families hoped against hope they'd see each other again, that they were all out in some rural garden, working and enjoying life.

Too many people had gone missing and it had been years. They knew.