Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paris' Le Bourget airfield, the prisoner, his wife and their 13 pieces of luggage were swiftly motored to Fresnes Prison...
...spare-time poet, hoped that his political activity would show the same mixture of lyricism and practicality as his tribute to Peru's guano birds. They "leave a ... magic nitrogen fluid ... a concentrated essence of a longing for the sky, which . . . liberates the roots from the prison of the furrow, animates the stem, lifts the branches and raises flowers into the air-and makes the petal wings tremble like a little bird avid for space and freedom...
They slept on canvas cots. They had no electricity in their cells. A careful check was kept on razor blades and other possible suicide weapons. Their prison, once the Palace Hotel, was surrounded by barbed wire and machine guns...
...Marshal's countrymen, who five years ago looked to him as a fallen nation's hope, caught a glimpse of him as he passed on the way from Montrouge Prison to the Palais de Justice. Stiff with age and dignity, Pétain sat far in the back of the van. His wife, two doctors, two nurses and three lawyers trailed him in a five-car convoy. In the Palais courtyard the half-deaf old man was helped down by two gendarmes. "Ah," he quavered, "so we are here...
Negotiations for other German documents were under way. In cafés and even in prison compounds, discredited diplomats, jobless generals and plain sad sacks talked copyright laws and literary prices. It was still an eighth wonder of the post V-E world that the Chicago Daily News had paid Edda Ciano $75,000 for her late husband's dreary diary...