We’re well into June. We arrived six weeks ago, and the camp is rising before our eyes. The soldiers and civilian slave drivers of Baugesellschaft—the construction company—are working valiantly. Soon two large barracks comprising twenty-four rooms each stand ready at the foot of the hill, below our tents. Twenty other similarly huge barracks are being built. They look far more comfortable than our tents. The completed barracks are empty for now. Three-hundred-liter boilers have meanwhile arrived for the kitchens that are yet to be built. There are more sentries, and barracks similar to ours
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