10/04/2026
When the plates were first set down, laughter spread across the room.
It wasn’t joy. It wasn’t relief. It was the kind of nervous laughter that comes from exhaustion, disbelief, and months of living with uncertainty. The women leaned toward one another, whispering in hushed voices, eyes fixed on the unfamiliar food before them.
Golden-brown. Crispy. Smelling strangely rich.
Fried chicken.
Or at least, that was what the American guards said it was.
For the German women held as prisoners of war near the end of the conflict, the meal felt almost unreal. For years, food had been measured, stretched, substituted, and stripped of comfort. Meals were about survival, not pleasure. Meat, especially prepared this way, had become more memory than reality.
So when the plates arrived, suspicion came first.
Some stared.
Some laughed.
Some pushed the food away...
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