Walter, like Danny you have the enviable ability to recall seemingly mundane detail about your experiences of over 70 years ago. Of course, the detail is anything but mundane as it puts us at your side on that interminable journey, and in the POW camp. Coffee that was no such thing, but at least hot enough to shave with! Crumbs that had to be shared out equally, similarly with Red Cross parcels (that at least were delivered even in the bad times!).
The comradeship of shared privation is best exemplified by your tale of Mark Cohen's raid on the camp orderly room and then tracking you down after the war (and presumably as many others as he was able to) to unite you with your "Dulag Luft Kreigsgefangenenkartel". As Danny comments, the living might have been hard, but it was at least scrupulously and meticulously recorded!
That Mark Cohen was Jewish reminds us of another member of that faith, Reg Lewin, who described his war to us and of the sub-war that they fought, even in defiance of their own side, to ensure the future of their new homeland for the survivors of the Holocaust.
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