Number of Prisoners:

Non-commissioned officers --------------------    856
Members of the sanitary  personnel -------     23
Privates  ------------------------------------------------ 2, 107     
Total ------------------------------------------------------ 2,986 German prisoners

The spokesman is private Horst STRUMER, who is very young but who performs his duties well.

Twenty-three sanitary prisoners work in the hospital and i the infirmary and are paid80 cents a day.  The prisoners request German doctors.

Medical care:  On the day of the visit there were 37 patients at the hospital, non of whom were serious cases.  Most of the patients suffer from malaria.  The hospital food is good but prepared by American cooks.  There is an infirmary in the sector to which a dental clinic is attached.         

Food:  The food is prepared by the prisoners to sit their taste,  It is excellent.

Library:  The library is in the same barrack as the imfirmary,  It is very well organized with a catalogue and the possibility for all prisoners to borrow books.  

Education:  The students were previously divided into two groups: 1) Preparation if the NCOS after their 12 year military service, for a trade or a civil service post; but these courses were abolished as a large number of the NCOS were transferred to another camp.  2) Courses on various subjects, for a general education: languages, stenography, mathematics, mechanics, agriculture, etc.  280 students in this last group have 1 hour of courses a week.

The majority of the prisoners work, and the courses take place in the evening,  Even the teachers are not exempt fro work, which leaves them very little time in which to prepare courses.

Recreation:  A small group pf artists, painters and sculptors had opened a studio which had to be abandoned due to lack of time.

Two orchestra and a band were organized as well as a choir which sings mostly during the religious services.  The prisoners request a barrack which cold be used as a theater.  They have some actors among them and would like to give a performance.

Once a week there is a moving picture performance.  Records have been sent to them by the YMCA.  There are a sufficient number of games.

Canteen:  The canteen is well supplied as usual.  If perchance an article of common use is lacking, it is soon replaced.

Sports:  Two (2) large fields are at the disposal of the prisoners: they play football before a large number of prisoner spectators.  They also have three (3) tennis courts and all kind of equipment for jumping, athletics, etc.

Religious services:  The prisoners have a Catholic chaplain but they request a Protestant one.  The services are held every Sunday.

Work:  2,300 prisoners work every day. Some of them are employed in the military camp at the usual tasks: automobile repairs, the prisoners have to wash and grease 50 cars a day.  Laundry: one man has to iron 160 trousers (by machine) a day, etc. More than 1,700 prisoners work outside the camp in various factories:  glass factories, fruit and vegetable canneries, fertilizer factories, etc.  The men are transported by truck to their places of work.

Clothing:  The authorities supply the prisoners with all the clothing and underwear they need.

Correspondence:  The prisoners captured in Normandy have, naturally, not yet received any news from their families, but among the others, only three (3) men have not received any letters since the beginning of their captivity (May 1943).

Conclusion:  The Camp Commandant received the Representative very well.  He met him at Indianapolis and listened readily to his suggestions: the sanitary personnel, as well as the prisoners who work in the camp, will hereafter be permitted to take a a walk outside the camp once a week.

Let us report that among the prisoners are 74 Russians who have been quartered in a barrack partially separated from the Germans.  The camp produces a good impression in spite of slight inevitable misunderstandings.