Shaving on the "Altmark"
Tins were very useful things at times on board, We were glad to get a spare old fruit tin, as we were given one of these for drinking out of. It was the only thing we had to hold our soup in, and after that to put our coffee in. The same old tin would be used for our shaving water. We managed to shave now and then, with big intervals in between shaves. As a matter of fact we only had four razors amongst our team. We didn’t want to be called Nitty Whiskers, after the German Captain. However, a shave helped to pass the time. You see, it would take about three hours to heat the water for a shave. On this ship they used a new type of electric light bulb, in which the bulb was screwed into the holder. We would unscrew this and put water in and screw it up again and turn on the juice, and in time it would warm up.-(From an interview with three New Zealanders who were prisoners on the Altmark),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 10
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184Shaving on the "Altmark" New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 50, 7 June 1940, Page 10
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