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Bread ration for the evening meal, 1943
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This bread ration was given to the company employee Heinrich Fleck (1900-1988) in 1943 for the night shift respectively night watch in the air-raid shelter, after he had previously worked his regular 10 hours. He was given a very thin slice of sausage to go with it. He kept the bread, according to the motto: "If we're already starving, this piece of bread won't save us."
The slice of bread is indeed 80 years old and a symbol of the shortages that prevailed then and that we encounter again today when we look towards Ukraine.
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Heinrich Fleck, who had been employed in the shipping department (lastly packing group manager) at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, since 1915 and also served as a soldier in World War II, survived these difficult times. He remained at the company until his retirement in 1965, i.e., for 50 years!