Ears to the Outside World

We had a very good fellow who built a radio and people didn’t just sit listening to the boob tube. But people who were on the committee for the radio made a record, a record of the daily news and then it was read around the whole camp. In small, to small groups you see. And it lasted very well and we were kept reasonably up to date in the development, larger development of the war. We used to listen to the, our, our operator listened and recorded it and then it was read around the whole camp. It was a...had to be done very circumspectly.

Interviewer: If in fact the German authorities had of found the radio what would have happened?

They’d have destroyed it, made it difficult for us to replace it and if they could lay their hands on anybody who was operating it they would punish that person.