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to come, because what we now saw we had not imagined in our wildest dreams! Already in Singapore we were not happy with our quarters, but compared with these conditions, we had been living in a palace. Already during roll-call we had seen in the semi-dark a few rows of low buildings, in the style of Singapore’s horse stables, which we thought they were, assuming that our quarters were out of sight, maybe behind the stables. Who could describe my astonishment when I found out, upon entering the camp, that these holes
were indeed to be our quarters, for the next months at least. I groped for somewhere to sit as I tried to overcome my astonishment over how it was possible that the government of a civilised country could force its European prisoners into such quarters. As I was surrounded by new comrades, or rather: fellow sufferers, one said comfortingly: “You will learn to live with it,