After
two days of this we arrived at Nuremburg. It was approximately
February 4. We were farther south now and the weather was a little
warmer. We were relieved to have made the trip without being strafed
or bombed by our own comrades as we knew the Allies were aiming at
all the trains they could find. It just gave us out more thing to
worry about. We walked three miles to the new camp outside
Nuremburg. The conditions at this camp were much worse than those at
Sagan. The camp had been used by Italian officers who were prisoners
and it was filthy, dirty and muddy. Bruce and I managed to stay
together and get into the same barracks but we had lost Ullo and the
others from the barracks at Sagan. The barracks were in sections with
bunks for twelve men on one side of each section. A cooking area with
a table was on the opposite side with an aisle down the middle. Each
man did his own cooking on a stove which we turned on its side to
make more of a cooking surface. When we found something to burn, we
cooked on the stove. The remainder of the time we ate cold food. It
was becoming more difficult for the Red Cross to deliver food parcels
to us and some weeks we got half a parcel, other weeks none. We were
hungry all the time and gradually getting weaker. The water, however,
must have been good here as we were finally getting over the
diarrhea. I should mention one of the observations I made about men
at this time and know I'll always remember.
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