en: carlo-porta: chapter-6: c: 6 title: "The harsh life of the camp" subtitles: sequence-1: s: 1 from: "00:00:00,23" to: "00:00:08,04" text: "All they gave us to eat was one of those tall loaves of dark bread." sequence-2: s: 2 from: "00:00:08,04" to: "00:00:13,12" text: "It was a large loaf, but you had to split it in five pieces." sequence-3: s: 3 from: "00:00:13,12" to: "00:00:20,19" text: "That’s all you got until evening. Then at night we were given some slop, but no more bread." sequence-4: s: 4 from: "00:00:20,19" to: "00:00:29,00" text: "That piece of bread was like gold for me: I used to eat it bit by bit, in order to savor it." sequence-5: s: 5 from: "00:00:29,00" to: "00:00:38,15" text: "We were terribly hungry and in the winter, when we went to work in Hagen, it was freezing:" sequence-6: s: 6 from: "00:00:38,15" to: "00:00:46,15" text: "we spent the whole day close to a river and the air was unbearable." sequence-7: s: 7 from: "00:00:46,15" to: "00:00:50,07" text: "At lunch they gave us some slop." sequence-8: s: 8 from: "00:00:50,07" to: "00:00:54,04" text: "That’s where I’ve learned about margarine," sequence-9: s: 9 from: "00:00:54,04" to: "00:01:03,27" text: "chard, turnip, and this kind of stuff, all minced, cooked and seasoned with some of this margarine." sequence-10: s: 10 from: "00:01:03,27" to: "00:01:07,25" text: "Those who came last ended up eating it cold," sequence-11: s: 11 from: "00:01:07,25" to: "00:01:14,20" text: "and it was often my case, since I did not like to cram up with all the others." sequence-12: s: 12 from: "00:01:14,20" to: "00:01:19,00" text: "When we were allowed to break ranks," sequence-13: s: 13 from: "00:01:19,00" to: "00:01:24,06" text: "the Germans used to enjoy watching us cram in line and get into disputes." sequence-14: s: 14 from: "00:01:24,06" to: "00:01:32,20" text: "Forage caps would typically be falling in the soup, something that would drive people out of their minds." sequence-15: s: 15 from: "00:01:32,20" to: "00:01:43,04" text: "My Corporal, whose name was Mario Palazzeschi, from Arezzo, was incredibly healthy, a lot healthier than me." sequence-16: s: 16 from: "00:01:43,04" to: "00:01:49,04" text: "One day, however, he began to cry, sobbing “Carlo, I won’t make it, I won’t make it…”." sequence-17: s: 17 from: "00:01:49,04" to: "00:01:52,11" text: "Within three months he was dead." sequence-18: s: 18 from: "00:01:52,11" to: "00:01:54,18" text: "You know what I’ve always said?" sequence-19: s: 19 from: "00:01:54,18" to: "00:02:02,11" text: "Mr. Benito Mussolini and Mr. Hitler would have to die before me." sequence-20: s: 20 from: "00:02:02,11" to: "00:02:10,24" text: "imagine what they would say if they were to find out that I’m still here, more than eighty years old now!" sequence-21: s: 21 from: "00:02:10,24" to: "00:02:15,02" text: "I say this only to laugh a bit."