The siege went on for three and a half years, and it was a siege without water, without power, without electricity, without heat, without food, in the middle of Europe, in the middle of the 20th century.
Le siège dura trois ans et demi, un siège sans eau, sans alimentation, sans électricité, sans chauffage, sans nourriture, au centre de l'Europe, en plein XXème siècle.