Julien

“Most of the 17,000 French prisoners of war from Stalag III D were put to work in the city, creating barricades and digging foxholes in pavements at street corners. How much they achieved is open to question, however, especially since French prisoners round Berlin were those most regularly accused of being ‘Arbeitsunlustig’ - reluctant to work — and of escaping from their camps, usually to visit German women.”
― Antony Beevor, The Fall of Berlin 1945