The luckiest prisoners were sentenced to fifteen years in a forced labour camp, or in one of the reo
The luckiest prisoners were sentenced to fifteen years in a forced labour camp, or in one of the reopened coal mines, under the harsh whip of imported African overseers. In these dark caverns the girls soon lost all vestiges of humanity, becoming mere pit ponies - overworked beasts of burden, naked and filthy in the warm, damp environment. -- source link