Training of Sister’s Buttenberg employees.

All three of these trainees were contracted at the insistence of the Battenberg sisters to undergo training and skills development at the CDF. Number 436 is already continuously undergoing her second six-month course, while numbers 471 and 472 have just started training. In this trio, she is the leader, setting an example for newcomers. At six in the morning, all three were transferred from their solitary confinement to the training cell. They were given new uniform hats with numbers corresponding to the numbers of the narrow standing cells. For sixteen consecutive hours, until 10 pm, they will train obedience and discipline under the supervision of a CDF officer. In total, they will have three four-hour training sessions and two two-hour rest breaks in narrow individual standing cells. The main emphasis will be on the accuracy of command execution and their synchronization. During training, number 436 - the leader, must not only set an example for other trainees, but also help the officer by noting errors in their actions, which she must report to the officer during the evening report. When the break begins, the leader must ensure that the trainees are placed in standing cells, that they take the correct positions and the doors are closed, after which she herself is placed in the cell, takes a position and makes a report to the officer. During rest, guided by the signal lamp, the leader monitors that the trainees make reports in the prescribed form every fifteen minutes. When the rest period ends and the leader hears the sound of the electric locks being unlocked, she is the first to leave the cell and controls the exit of other trainees and their formation along the cell doors. On the doors of the standing cells there are metal signs with basic report forms for the trainees and the leader. They are required to familiarize themselves with them and recite them out loud each time before entering the cell.

The uniforms of the trainees and the leader of the three differ slightly, since the leader has no privileges over them, but only additional responsibility. Her dress is burgundy and has the letter L on her left breast. Another difference is the Roman numeral 2 next to her serial number 436. This indicates that the trainee is undergoing a second six-month training course in a row. All three trainees wear a patch on their left chest with the initials and last names of their trustees, employers and sponsors, the Battenberg Sisters.