“ In all the cities I looked for a job, but could not get anything. I did not care for the villages; they are not like our villages, just huts made of straw and no chance for work. They do not cultivate the ground as we do. ”

“ Conditions in Russia in the last few months be came extremely bad for the prisoners of war. Factories where we were formerly employed are shut down. Men who worked on the big domains have been taken back to the prison camps and the population were told that they must not take prisoners out for work. ”

“ There was fifty thousand more men, prisoners of war, scattered throughout the vast regions of Russia and Siberia, whose applications to join the army had been received, but who were unable to reach the concentration camps. ”