Voices from the Dark Years by Douglas Boyd

Author:Douglas Boyd
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780750963176
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

The thermometer showed minus 10 degrees C in the morning, but it was down to minus 37 by dusk, and minus 41 the following day. Men don’t function at those temperatures. Hands are too numb and joints all stiff. In the front line, the ground is as hard as stone and you can’t dig in. Automatic weapons become unreliable.

Another LVF man described the problem of urinating at those temperatures: ‘Each guy has to have a mate holding his gloves, because by the time he’s finished pissing, his hands are too frozen to put them on for himself.’

On 1 December in Paris Ernst Jünger was depressed after censoring some last messages written by executed hostages. If death came as a mercy to the mutilated bodies of convicted résistants after long torture, many hostages selected at random were still hoping right up to the last moment that they would live. Shot by soldiers wearing the same uniform as Jünger, they had written to wives and sweethearts and children and parents, spelling out their small cares to avoid mentioning the main thing on their mind. A hairdresser wrote:

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