Meals on the "Altmark"
OW I'll tell you about the meals on board the "Altmark." We had breakfast at 7 o’clockthat is, bread and margarine, Dinner, at half-past eleven, consisted of the same with half a pint of soup. Tea was at five, of bread,
margarine and German sausage, and, oh, what sausage! The "Graf Spee" food was something like that, but a little better. We would get a cup of coffee nearly every day and cocoa on Sunday. We got half a pint of water a day for drinking, and 1% pints of condenser water for washing ourselves and our clothing. Smoking was forbidden, al-
though we managed it now and again. I remember when our supply was running out that twenty of us had a puff each at the last cigarette. One or two chaps tried drying tea leaves for tobacco. At first we were allowed on deck for three-quarters of an hour a day, but this was reduced later to twenty minutes every other day. We spent five days on the "Graf Spee" and 1144 weeks on the "Altmark." Some of the other prisoners had been on her for 16% weeks.-(From an interview with New Zealanders who were prisoners in the "Altmark’"’).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 10
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