Sentences with phrase «as a prisoner of war for»

Avery was captured and held as a prisoner of war for two years near Auschwitz III, a... (more)

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was asked to lead a service for his fellow prisoners in Flossenburg concentration camp towards the end of the Second World War As he finished two men flung open the door and told prisoner Bonhoeffer to take his things and come with them.

Has enough been done for the exiles, for the unemployed and the homeless, and for the return of war prisoners that communism might not be drawn into Germany as a sponge draws in water, despite the present rejection of it in Western Germany?

Some of us, as children, thought of captives as white children taken by Indians, or Germans taken prisoner in World War I, or those thrown into prison for robbing or murdering.

Trump expressed no remorse for saying last summer that Sen. John McCain was «not a war hero,» despite being captured in Vietnam and tortured as a prisoner of war.

Neither water nor medicine aid was provided and you could not even donate blood for the injured in hospitals as it was stated that they were prisoners of war and hence no blood transfusions were permitted.

He truly stands for America's «Greatest Generation» as a model of citizenship, sacrifice and service as a soldier, a prisoner of war and a veteran who returned home and went on looking out for his community, family, friends and fellow veterans.

It was originally used as a rehabilitation program for prisoners of war and was later found to be of great benefit to anyone seeking a higher level of fitness.

See if she is wearing a pink triangle upside down.During the second world war, Nazi's labeled prisoners with various colors, depending on the crime Gay men were made to wear an inverted triangle that was pink «Antisocial» women, lesbians, prostitutes, and similar women wore inverted black triangles Today the adult lesbian dating services is provide common practice is usually the pink inverted triangle indicating homosexuality of either sex.Watch to see if she leaves for a major city the last weekend in June That is the weekend set aside for the Gay Pride Parade This is celebrated every year in larger cities and is seen as the beginning of the gay liberation movement like swinger club and so on How to be affectionate in public with your gay or lesbian partner.

The Spy is being written and directed by Gideon Raff, who also created Prisoners Of War, the Israeli TV show that served as the basis for Homeland.

Taking on the role of Vietnam vet Dieter Dengler, the downed Navy pilot Herzog first chronicled in his 1997 documentary «Little Dieter Needs to Fly,» Bale suffered for his art, conveying the hardships Dengler endured as a prisoner of war.

Playing a frequent - flyer junkie in «Up in the Air,» Clooney had a nomination for best dramatic actor, along with Jeff Bridges as a boozy country singer in «Crazy Heart,» Colin Firth as a grieving gay academic in «A Single Man,» Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in «Invictus» and Tobey Maguire as a prisoner of war in «Brothers.»

He spends nearly a half - hour on a stagecoach ride that introduces a mustachioed fugitive tracker, John «The Hangman» Ruth (Kurt Russell, talking like John Wayne); his driver O.B. (James Parks); his prisoner, the treacherous outlaw Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh), who's being escorted to Red Rock for hanging; incoming Red Rock sheriff Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), a former outlaw that Ruth can't accept as a lawman, and Maj. Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), an ex-slave turned anti-Confederate war hero turned bounty hunter whose record of wartime atrocities makes Ruth distrust him and Mannix hate his guts.

As the true story of an Olympic athlete turned World War II bombardier turned castaway turned prisoner of war, the film doesn't lack for a logliWar II bombardier turned castaway turned prisoner of war, the film doesn't lack for a logliwar, the film doesn't lack for a logline.

Mark Felton has written over a dozen books on prisoners of war, Japanese war crimes and Nazi war criminals, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War war, Japanese war crimes and Nazi war criminals, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War war crimes and Nazi war criminals, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War war criminals, and writes regularly for magazines such as Military History Monthly and World War War II.

Most famous as the site of a federal prison, Alcatraz Island was first a military fortress, home to the first lighthouse on the Pacific Coast in the mid 1850's, and a military prison for prisoners of the Civil and Spanish American Wars.

For a time, during the second world war, the Gili islands were used by Japanese forces as a look out post and also a prisoner of war camp.

The scored, scraped and blemished metal itself becomes a body of gashes and scars, hinting at Burri's original medical vocation as a military surgeon in the Italian army, first in the mid-1930s and later in the Second World War, where he was captured and interned as a prisoner of war in Hereford, Texas for five yeaWar, where he was captured and interned as a prisoner of war in Hereford, Texas for five yeawar in Hereford, Texas for five years.

He converted the hangars, which had been used in World War II to hold German prisoners, into massive galleries for contemporary art and refurbished some of the other structures to serve as work, office, and storage spaces.

Fort D.A. Russell started out as Camp Marfa, headquarters for the Big Bend Military District during the Mexican Revolution, then became a cavalry fort, housed German prisoners of war during World War II, was returned to civilian use in 1949, and was later bought by Judd who eventually purchased hundreds of acres of military property and at the time of his death, owned 40,000 acres of ranch lawar during World War II, was returned to civilian use in 1949, and was later bought by Judd who eventually purchased hundreds of acres of military property and at the time of his death, owned 40,000 acres of ranch laWar II, was returned to civilian use in 1949, and was later bought by Judd who eventually purchased hundreds of acres of military property and at the time of his death, owned 40,000 acres of ranch land.

Justice O'Connor cited it in the plurality opinion in Hamdi et al. v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, 519 (2004), for the proposition that that «captured rebels» would be treated «as prisoners of war».

The Secretary believes that this exemption is warranted because application of the rule could have the unintended effect of impeding or frustrating the conduct of such activities, such as interfering with the ability of military command authorities to obtain protected health information on prisoners of war, refugees, or detainees for whom they are responsible under international law.

I drove back to my office with visions of the climactic scene from «The Bridge Over the River Kwai,» the scene where after British prisoners of war sweat blood, toil, tears and sweat to build a bridge for the Japanese army, American commandoes blow it up as the first train is crossing.