Memories of German prisoners of war of the camp Elsterhorst

"the accommodation effected partly in the still existing barracks, partly in eiligst set up tents and in free nature. One changed weekly, so that each also once into one of the barracks arrived. Food supply gave it for the time being none. Water had to be taken out of the ditch. Daily one counted. If it were not correct, the prisoners stood up to five hours on the free spaces.

After a start-up phase the prisoners of war received 120 gram bread and two times starting from at the beginning of of May daily on the day a litre hot water with barley, vegetables or even a few potatoes. As toilet a approx. 20 meter long and 2 meters deep ditch served, at which a so-called thunder bar with a support was attached for holding. Here regrettably many prisoners of war found death. They did not fall from weakness backwards by the bar into the pit, from more to be saved could."