What is "stalag"

Usage examples of "stalag".

That was the primary reason the Stalag had been established in Poland.

The only propaganda to which he had been subjected was the magazines and newspapers in the Stalag library.

September, the British and French officers who had been in the stalag with them had been transferred elsewhere.

But he believed, devoutly, that the prisoner complement of Stalag XVII-B was a military formation, and a military formation must have discipline.

While l-have every faith that the Fuhrer will be able to stop the Soviet forces, I have, of course, made contingency plans for the evacuation of this stalag and its prisoners to the west.

Commanding officer of Stalag XVII-B, Oberst Graf Peter-Paul Von Greiffenberg sent Oberleutnant Karl-Heinz von und zu Badner to fetch Lt.

One of the prisoners taken near Hoescht was a captain who was formerly assigned to Stalag XVII-B.

Felter went to a map of Germany mounted on the wall of the van, pointing out where Stalag XVII-B had been located near Stettin.

American officers, formerly interned in Stalag XVII-B, Were in the huge and ancient timbered barn of a farm two miles east of Zwenkau.

A stockade, a prison camp, stalag, ghetto, torture chamber, charnel house, abattoir, duchy, fiefdom, Army co-op mess hall ruled by a neckless thug.

Colonel Hogan tricking Schultz into giving him the keys to the stalag gate -- again, this is redolent of Forties propaganda flicks, which portrayed Axis leaders as bungling and clownish.

The one thing they valued him for - that gave him potential status as a human being in their eyes - was his monster truck: 454 cubic inches of V-8 power, double wheels on the rear axle, a thick black roll bar brandishing great mesh-covered Stalag 17 searchlights that could pick out a shrew on a rock in a midnight windstorm across two miles of chaparral.

V-8 power, double wheels on the rear axle, a thick black roll bar brandishing great mesh-covered Stalag 17 searchlights that could pick out a shrew on a rock in a midnight windstorm across two miles of chaparral.

It was like she was out to write a nasty article about prison camps and had stopped by our stalag for some material.

The memory of those eighteen months in Stalag Luft 1 came flooding back into my mind.