sentences:  When he first entered the St. Elizabeth Hospital, he spoke to the Dutch staff in Afrikaans (which he had learned as a child in South Africa), because he had always been told it was similar to Dutch.The staff took offence at this, as to them it sounded like German, and he was told in no uncertain terms to always speak English.Kessel, who was Jewish, was taken prisoner at Arnhem, but later escaped and has told his story in his book "Surgeon at Arms", published in 1958.