The positive aspect of this captivity is the great solidarity born of defeat and then of misery.
A Mutual Aid Centre was set up to organise, through the purchase of food, an essential supplement to the shortage organised by the Germans and which could only allow survival.
The contents of the parcels, other supplements that families sent despite their own difficulties of provisioning, were shared among the prisoners of the same "popote", even with comrades who did not receive any.
This Mutual Aid Centre has helped, after the war and until today in 2009 families of prisoners in need. More than 760,000 euros have been distributed since the end of the Second World War.