Word: kommandante
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Once outside of the city, Esther stays out of the way by living on a farm. Trouble comes when the local Nazi Kommandant spies her. Suspecting she is a Jew, instead of turning her in, he forces her to become his mistress. Soon this horror gives way to another as...
On the evil side, I see Franz Stangl. Stangl was an ordinary Viennese policeman, a church-goer and family man, who, at the time of the Anschluss in 1938, was recruited by the Nazis to work as a "security" officer at a mental institution. He stepped onto the slippery slope...
On the other hand, by sly understatement, his chipper account poked fun at officious "bashi-bazouks" like the camp Kommandant, and a corporal whose mania for counting and recounting the prisoners prompted one inmate to swear: "After this war is over. I am going to buy a German soldier and...
We only lost a few men (who overindulged themselves in mortar fragments). We started to level the town with artillery fire, but the Wehrmacht hospital Kommandant and the Bürgermeister finally convinced the 55 that nothing could be gained by further resistance-beyond the possible execution of a few...
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