Chapter 3

Chapter 3 starts out with Billy Pilgrim and Robert Weary being captured by a group of Germans. The Germans take Weary's boots and replace them with less comfortable and not nearly as warm clogs. They are then force marched to Germany, Weary complaining constantly about his cold feet and Billy rocking from side to side due to his missing heal. When they reach Germany they are loaded onto cars, where the real hell begins. They are packed into a cattle car and have to take turns lying and standing. They have no food and only a single canteen to share between all the men. They use a helmet as a toilet and it is Billy's job being next to the vent to empty it. The only comfort Billy can find is in his time travel. Throughout the chapter he goes back and forth between his torturous captivity and his life in 1967. He realizes that he can not change his future or his past for that matter, but he can escape to them in his times terror.