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- noun slang
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If you are an 'ex-Kriegie', or you know one and you have a story to tell, then please
Introduction 2010
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I asked if he was a Tuskegee airman — he was, and a Kriegie.
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Gaye Dunn is the daughter of Keith Chappell, an ex-Kriegie from New
Introduction 2010
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After eighteen months of Kriegie camp life, I was given one day on parole and taken for a long walk.
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If they try to say more than "yeah" or "is that so" or perhaps "I don't know" (An expression you seldom hear a Kriegie use) or any other such distinguishing expressions "good" conversationalists use; Mike suddenly remembers that he was supposed to be someplace else.
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So many cigarettes (or pieces of chocolate - and whether British or American) for washing a shirt and so much more for washing and ironing; socks had their price and so did all the items that a Kriegie might possess.
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It was just little things that kept him from becoming a wealthy Kriegie.
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In the work room, the dirt was loaded into long sausage like bags which could be secreted down the pants leg of a Kriegie.
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The Indian prisoners seem to be happy living under the worst possible Kriegie conditions here at VII A.
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The Kriegie Kids began their journey late on Jan. 27.
bilby commented on the word Kriegie
Aber er ist als Geisel festgesetzt worden und wird wie ein Kriegsgefangener behandelt.
Yet he is taken hostage and treated as a prisoner of war.
May 15, 2018