There were two schools of thought. One was in favor of eating up the ration immediately.
This had the twofold advantage of satisfying the worst hunger pangs for a very short time at least once a day
and of safeguarding against possible theft or loss of the ration.
The second group, which held with dividing the ration up, used different arguments.
I finally joined their ranks. The most ghastly moment of the twenty-four hours of camp life was the awakening,
when, at a still nocturnal hour, the three shrill blows of a whistle tore us pitilessly from our exhausted sleep and from the longings in our dreams.
We then began the tussle with our wet shoes, into which we could scarcely force our feet, which were sore and swollen with edema.
And there were the usual moans and groans about petty troubles, such as the snapping of wires which replaced shoelaces.
One morning I heard someone, whom I knew to be brave and dignified, cry like a child
because he finally had to go to the snowy marching grounds in his bare feet, as his shoes were too shrunken for him to wear.
In those ghastly minutes, I found a little bit of comfort; a small piece of bread which I drew out of my pocket and munched with absorbed delight.
Undernourishment, besides being the cause of the general preoccupation with food,
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