en: carlo-porta: chapter-7: c: 7 title: "The cold and the work" subtitles: sequence-1: s: 1 from: "00:00:00,17" to: "00:00:03,21" text: "When we arrived there, the French asked us:" sequence-2: s: 2 from: "00:00:03,21" to: "00:00:09,09" text: "“Since you come from the outside, what do people say? How long will the war last?”." sequence-3: s: 3 from: "00:00:09,09" to: "00:00:17,04" text: "We always thought we knew everything, and we told them it would only last one or two more months," sequence-4: s: 4 from: "00:00:17,04" to: "00:00:26,17" text: "but they replied it would go on for another two years. They were right, the war went on for two more years." sequence-5: s: 5 from: "00:00:26,17" to: "00:00:27,20" text: ~ sequence-6: s: 6 from: "00:00:27,20" to: "00:00:33,08" text: "There were women who had to work on the railroad with shovels and pickaxes." sequence-7: s: 7 from: "00:00:33,08" to: "00:00:38,25" text: "Sometimes they were even pregnant, and trust me, that’s hard work." sequence-8: s: 8 from: "00:00:38,25" to: "00:00:43,03" text: "They didn’t do a headcount at night," sequence-9: s: 9 from: "00:00:43,03" to: "00:00:49,14" text: "to see who was back and who wasn’t, they didn’t care if ten of us had died during the day." sequence-10: s: 10 from: "00:00:49,14" to: "00:00:56,13" text: "Similarly, they did not expect us to work too hard, but we had to be at work every day." sequence-11: s: 11 from: "00:00:56,13" to: "00:00:57,05" text: ~ sequence-12: s: 12 from: "00:00:57,05" to: "00:01:01,21" text: "In my camp, after we woke up at five," sequence-13: s: 13 from: "00:01:01,21" to: "00:01:05,05" text: "we were supposed to get up and leave with the others," sequence-14: s: 14 from: "00:01:05,05" to: "00:01:10,21" text: "but after that there was no control on what we did during the day." sequence-15: s: 15 from: "00:01:10,21" to: "00:01:13,24" text: "And in any case, there was nowhere we could go." sequence-16: s: 16 from: "00:01:13,24" to: "00:01:20,23" text: "You were simply expected to be at work, even if you didn’t do anything all day." sequence-17: s: 17 from: "00:01:20,23" to: "00:01:22,24" text: ~ sequence-18: s: 18 from: "00:01:22,24" to: "00:01:26,25" text: "It was very cold where we were." sequence-19: s: 19 from: "00:01:26,25" to: "00:01:30,18" text: "There were Russian women, as well as some men."