POW diaries - Captain Percival Lowe, item 22

• June 17, 2017 16:27:05 L G

  x The sanitation here was quite out of hand. In TORGAU

  it was necesary to put up notices "Defense de monter

  sur le siege". Here the Russians in spite of the barbed

  wire contrivances of the Hun monte' as a matter of

  course.

  This unsavory subject takes me to the Citadel MAGDEBURG

  when a Frenchman was run in by germans for this

  offense. He urged that if he did not do this he would 

  pick up microbes. This for the moment non plused the

  Hun officer - but he then observed there were no

  microbes in the fatherland. If the danger existed it

  was brought by the prisoners. Therefore he the

  Frenchman must do 3 days in prison.

  
  

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• June 17, 2017 16:18:19 L G

  x The sanitation here was quite out of hand. In TORGAU

  it was necesary to put up notices "Defense de monter

  sur le siege". Here the Russians in spite of the barbed

  wire contrivances of the Hun monte' as a matter of

  course.

  This unsavory subject takes me to the Citadel MAGDEBURG

  when a Frenchman was run in by germans for this

  offense. He urged that if he did not do this he would 

  pick up microbes. This for the moment non plused the

  Hun officer- but he then observed there were no

  microbes in the fatherland. If the danger existed it

  was brought by the prisoners. Therefore he the

  Frenchman must do 3 days in prison.

  
  

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