Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walls and poles of the Transvaal this handbill was pasted one day during the Boer War. It described a young newspaper reporter who had fought like a professional soldier when a British armored train was ambushed by Boers; had been captured and held as prisoner of war, had climbed over the ten-foot iron fence of his prison with no map or compass, but a little money and some cubes of chocolate in his pockets, and had eventually taken refuge at the bottom of a mine. It described and-with the exception of the age and the mustache, which...
...veterans will see World War I prison camp money, food ration tickets, postal card propaganda and zeppelin air raid pictures. German thin paper nocks are shown, advertised an providing "excellent, protection for the foot against cold and front...
...Further penalties for failure to cooperate: up to three years in prison, fines...
Last week the British press reported the second end of Stefan the Stubborn. On the anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland that small, sturdy, bullet-headed figure, in striped prison garb, was marched between long rows of wooden barracks to the treeless, grassless Ubungsplatz of the camp to face a firing squad. Berlin did not bother to deny the story...
...nothing had Newsman Phillips spent five days watching Nazi soldiers strut about a prison compound. He noticed the hiker's walk, turned his car around, halted, asked for the man's identification card. Said the fair-haired stranger in a heavy German accent: "I am on my way to Ottawa...