Once a day they gave each of us a
cup of soup which was all that they prepared in the cookhouse at this
camp. One soup was barley and water (mostly water) and a dirty gray
color. The other was a green soup made with dehydrated vegetables.
This soup had black bugs, about the size of ladybugs, floating on top
of it. Some of the guys could never eat this soup but I was so hungry
that I did. At first I took my spoon and skimmed all the bugs off the
top and ate the rest. I wondered why it was so crunchy until I
discovered that there was a beetle inside all the dehydrated peas in
the soup. After that I just stirred the soup up and ate it as fast as
I could. These two months were very nerve wracking due to the
continual bombing of Nuremburg which was only three miles away. The
Americans bombed it almost every day and the British at night.
Nuremburg had a large railroad terminal and was a favorite target.
When the bombs fell, the ground and barracks would shake and
everything fell off the shelves as the windows broke. During one raid
the bombs were so close that one wall of our barracks moved Six
inches. At night we crawled under the lower bunk together for safety
as we couldn't leave the building. In the daytime we look two bed
slats with the blanket folded on top and held it over our heads to go
outside and watch the bombing. This was to protect our heads from all
the shrapnel that was falling on the camp.
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