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There was no work for the slave workers, they were allowed to roam free, the Germans I don’t believe really fed them, there was no need to feed them, they were no longer of any use. I always remember this poor man, he was walking down the lane where we lived and he still had the clothes that he had arrived in which were encrusted with cement and he had no shoes or boots on his feet. He had managed to find an old sack and he had wrapped this sack around his feet, and that was all he had as footwear. He was going down the lane and all of a sudden he took his pen knife out of his pocket and he cut something off a hedge, I don’t know what it was and he started to slice it and eat it because if there had been a field of carrots alongside he would not have been allowed to go in and help himself to the carrots. He probably would have been in even more trouble. But what we don’t know is how many of these slave workers actually died through malnutrition after D-Day.
FRED GALLIENNE

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