A Soldier at Seventeen
As a member of the Czechoslovak battalion, Jan Perl participated in the siege of Tubruq in 1941. When he and his battalion came to the town, all the water wells were poisoned. Perl recalls: “One of the reasons Tubruq was so famous was that it was besieged by someone else every moment; one day by the Germans, then by the Italians, after that the Britons, South-Africans or Australians. The worst times were when it was besieged by Germans and Italians in one moment. When the Britons forced them to leave, they poisoned the wells and when we got there it was not possible to drink the water. It was too dangerous. The Britons brought in some machines for filtering seawater. So we had quite enough water, but it was horrible. It took time to get used to it. One could still sense the salt. The water was harmless, but absolutely distasteful.”
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