Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Internment Camp. Yesterday we were to have eaten banana stalks. That was all and the Japs said there would be no more food. "About sunrise our planes came over, dropped paratroops and engaged our guards. The guerrillas also attacked, and during the fighting our tanks drove in through our prison walls. We were hurried into these tanks and started out. It was a wonderful sight to see this string of 70 tanks in perfect formation traveling steadily toward freedom through the water. "Imagine 150 American boys rescuing and transporting over 2,000 prisoners out of a territory surrounded...
More sobering yet were the stories and pictures from Europe of what had happened to U.S. prisoners in Germany. The stories came from the now liberated prison camps at Bad Orb and Limburg, where U.S. soldiers, captured in the Battle of the Bulge but four months ago, were left to starve into illness and death. The pictures from Limburg (see cuts) spoke for themselves. They were stark testimony of the barbarous state into which the once correct, highly professional Wehrmacht had fallen. More than that, they were the final proof, if any was still needed, that Germany would have...
...title character is an old English Jew who ventures into the anti-Semitic Germany of 1938 in search of a twelve-year-old refugee's missing mother. On the way he finds himself framed on a murder charge, dragged from bed by the Gestapo, and cast into a Nazi prison. Help comes from a British night club singer who is the toast of Berlin and has no little influence with the military bigwigs of the hour. It is an engrossing story of international adventure that banks on neither unique turns of plot nor an overdose of suspense, but on sensitive...
Profits were ½? a peg, paid by the Marine Corps. It furnished the lumber; heat, light, power and rent were supplied by the prison, all free. Hundreds of fellow convicts were hired by the convict capitalists for as little as 40? a day. In this capitalistic Utopia, with no overhead, the pegs rolled out, the profits rolled in. There was only one catch; the four hobby shop owners are serving life terms for murder...
...Prison hobby shops are not unusual, are owned by individual prisoners who hire fellow inmates to make ship models, wooden toys, and other small gadgets which are sold to outside buyers...