European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)

“Well, then do another lot.”

After that they took away our leather shoes and gave us wooden ones like those worn by the Dutchmen.

And then they plunked down foot rags for us and the wooden shoes.

“We have a nice sports ground here we would like to show you. There you can do sports.”

On the sports ground they chased us around.

Squats in a group, endurance run;

and we were mistreated, as well, by blows with the rifle-butts of the SA.

After that we had to climb over a drill wall which is 2 metres high.

Some could not get over;

there were older ones, who had been imprisoned for years.

They did not have enough breath left.

“Volunteers, step forward”, and us younger ones went over.

Prison Luckau, work, imprisonment

I think we had to walk in chains from the station through Luckau.

Behind us the gates were closed.

When we were dressed in the jail clothes our private belongings were all taken away.

We were put into a prison cell,

about 2x4 metres in size, with three men.

That was where we had to live for the next months and years.

The Luckau prison was overcrowded.