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Study Guide

Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter 3, Section 29

By Kurt Vonnegut

Chapter 3, Section 29

The war is coming to an end.
These trains are carrying POWs in late December 1944, and the war will end in May 1945.
There is nothing left to eat and no fuel to keep the POWs warm, yet the Germans keep taking prisoners.