The Soul-Destroying Mental Conflict

Prisoners could calculate with fair accuracy whose turn would be next, and when his own would come. Even the strongest of us was longing for the time when he would have fairly good food again. Those who have not gone through a similar experience can hardly conceive of the soul-destroying mental conflict and clashes of all power which have famished man experiences. Under nourishment, besides being the cause of the general preoccupation with food, probably also explains the fact that the sexual urge was generally absent. This was brought home to me on transfer from Auschwitz to a camp affiliated with Darkau. At about midnight we passed one of Vienna's Viennese stations where I had lived many years