One Bath in Almost Three Years

We were given some black bread and it was good, I don’t say anything against it and mint tea, that’s really what we got. When we got to the camp they gave us a bath and fumigated our clothes just in case of lice and in those two years, nine months that’s the only bath I had. We all smelt pretty good I guess we all smelt alike but no, we washed ourselves down. We shaved every day, I don’t say everyday most of us just had fuzz anyhow but we shaved. I guess maybe at some time or another they knew we were going to get to prison. They said remember if you are taken prisoner you’re still a soldier and I guess that’s it. And so no, we shaved every day and nobody had whiskers and we’d scrub ourselves down, it was cold water so ya, it wasn’t that bad.