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Mrs Irene Gosset interviewed by John Gaisford and Rosie Mere
Transcribed and edited by John David from audio and video recordings

At the end the Germans were more hungry than we were, and I’ll never forget coming out into the Foulon one day, there was a German soldier, and he looked elderly, how old he was I don’t know, but, his uniform was just hanging off him, he was so thin and with his nails he was scratching out of the brick wall, looking for something to eat, looking for a root, and I saw that with my own eyes. They were starving, food was here, and this horrible Hoffmeier, he wouldn’t release it to his own troops, because his idea apparently was, if there was a siege, no way was he going to surrender.
I…… So that was the most important thing for him, was it?
Mrs Gosset. yes.
I…… Reputation?
Mrs Gosset. Yes. He was a naval chap, nasty looking, very tall and thin. He was stationed along the road here, at the Collinette,

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