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After that we went back into the shack.

You always had to run to get your supper.

Sometimes there were stews, ‘Peluschken’ which were big beans

not everybody could take; or some other vegetable – those things.

A really bad thing was when there was roll call while the food was given out.

For the roll call you had to go out. So the food got cold -

and it didn’t taste any good anyway - and now you had cold food.

But you had to eat it to take something in.

Arrival in moor-camp, sport-harassment

When we arrived in the moor and got off, the constable,

who was accompanying us, said: “Poor boys.”

He knew what was going on in the moor.

We were then handed over to the SA.

It already started then – the yelling: “Face Left! Who steps out of line will be shot.”

That’s how we got to ‘Börgermoor’.

Then we were taken there by a narrow-gauge railway.

We were newly clothed

and the quartermaster who was a SA man, too, asked: “Why are you here?”

I said: “Because of sports”.

“Well, then do 25 sweet ones.”