p, Corrie asks Betsie how long will they have to endure this place. Betsie tells her that it does not matter because they can use this time to share the gospel with prisoners and guards. Betsie excitedly tells her that if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love. A few days later the sisters receive work assignments: Betsie must sew uniforms because she is weak and Corrie goes to Phillips Factory to work on radios. In the hot July weather, Corrie approaches Phillips Factory, where several hundred men and women work at benches on various radio parts. Corrie has the boring job of measuring rods and arranging them by length. When the officer tells the prisoner foreman, Mr. Moorman, that quality control must increase he nods apologetically. When Moorman asks if rations could be increased, the soldier slips and reveals that soldiers on the front have half rations. However, he speedily retracts this statement. After the soldiers leave, everyone laughs before taking out knitting or beginning conversations. Everyone asks Corrie who she is and where she comes form before asking for news about the war. Mr. Moorman reminds the workers to meet the quota to avoid punishment. Mr. Moorman is kind and helpful, giving her a more difficult task of relay switches upon learning that she is a watchmaker. He also tells her to sabotage the wiring because German planes will receive these radios. Corrie later learns the Moorman was the headmaster of a Roman Catholic boys school and that his son was shot in Vught the day she arrived.