Formatted Contents Note: Part I-Downfall -- War Came to Us -- Days of rout -- Capture -- Part II-Captivity -- Days of hunger -- A prison camp in France -- Live cargo for Germany -- Stalag II, a Concentration Camp for War Prisoners in Pomerania -- Part III-Forced Labor -- A Prison Farm on the Polish Border -- Fall -- Winter -- A prison camp in a big harbour -- Bound for nowhere on a banana freighter -- Life around the Kommandofuhrer -- Life around the lagerfuhrer -- The Vertrauensmann -- Nazi propaganda in the camp -- The prisoners -- Distractions and intellectual life -- 87,461:Justice of the peace -- Letters, packages and Red Cross Gifts -- Night life on the SS. Nordenham -- Story and midnight trial of a barber -- My last Kommandofuhrer -- Part IV-Escape -- Exit one kriegsgefangene -- Veille D'Armes -- Berlin express -- In the shade of swastika blossoms -- With thanks to the German police -- Reserved quarters -- A sick city -- The last border -- Afterword by Jacqueline Helion.