小库尔特·冯内古特写给父亲的信(2) Under the Geneva Convention , Officers and Non - commissioned Officers are not obliged to work when taken prisoner .
I am , as you know , a Private . One - hundred - and - fifty such minor beings were shipped to a Dresden work camp on January 10 th .
I was their leader by virtue of the little German I spoke . It was our misfortune to have sadistic and fanatical guards .
We were refused medical attention and clothing : We were given long hours at extremely hard labor .
Our food ration was two - hundred - and - fifty grams of black bread and one pint of unseasoned potato soup each day .
After desperately trying to improve our situation for two months and having been met with bland smiles I told the guards just what I was going to do to them when the Russians came .
They beat me up a little . I was fired as group leader . Beatings were very small time : -- one boy starved to death and the SS Troops shot two for stealing food .
On about February 14 th the Americans came over , followed by the R . A . F . their combined labors killed 250 , 000 people in twenty - four hours and destroyed all of Dresden -- possibly the world ' s most beautiful city . But not me .
After that we were put to work carrying corpses from Air - Raid shelters ; women , children , old men ; dead from concussion , fire or suffocation .
Civilians cursed us and threw rocks as we carried bodies to huge funeral pyres in the city .
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