I haven't seen this since I was kid. I'd like to see it again...

One of my grandfathers was an officer in the Italian Infantry during WWI and was captured by the Germans during the Caporetto disaster of 1917; he spent the rest of the war in a concentration camp near Hamburg. They relied on Red Cross-delivered packages from home to survive on -- he said the german camp guards that delivered the packages used to watch bug-eyed at the food they got, but never intercepted them, though they were on a starvation diet themselves.

Giovanni