Over the next few days,  his head was swollen with abscesses, and in fact his eye was so infected that they had to take it out, and by February of 1941, this poor man was on the verge of dying.
Tijekom sljedećih dana,  glava mu je natekla od gnojnih čireva i oko mu je bilo toliko inficirano da su mu ga morali izvaditi. Do kraja veljače 1941. godine, ovaj je jadni čovjek bio na rubu smrti.