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| The Germans put two of their people into the firm of Numan's Blikfabrieken. One, called Hermann Stöhrig, became manager in the office and another, called Bielstein, in the factory. I had learned German and could also take shorthand in that language, so I had a lot to do with Mr. Stöhrig, who was really a very nice man, as Germans go. We also had an occasional visit from the big boss from Germany, Herr General-Direktor Dr. Werner Funk, and this resulted in a big so-called A2 Anlage being installed in the downstairs large factory hall. It could in one operation spew out cans for the Wehrmacht. These cans were then sent to Meat, Cheese or other factories to be filled with food for the German soldiers at the Front. Tine had arranged with some of these firms, to send them a few extra dozen cans (mistakes as they were called) half of which came back to us filled with whatever was put into them for the soldiers. We also received smoked eel (which sometimes |
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disappeared in transit), tinned cream, etc. The food situation became extremely difficult, especially towards the end of the war - the winter of 1944/45 - the 'hunger winter' as it came to be called. There were ration cards, but often the shops ran out of things. We came to the stage where we only had food from the public kitchens, and it was not very good. We boiled sugar beet, using the syrup for sweetening and the pulp to extend the volume of the soup kitchen rations, or - if we had some flour - to mix it together and bake this mixture into awful pancakes. |
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