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D 3: Object/ a school satchel made of Igelit

D 3: Object/ a school satchel made of Igelit

This is my old school satchel. It has a penetrating smell. And that is how my bag smelled, it smelled in the train in the east - that's how the train smelled. The smell came from this material: it's called Igelit, this indestructible stuff.

Renate K., born 1932, from Magdeburg, Germany